W. S. Merwin Quotes
I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere
W. S. Merwin
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
Forest Whitaker
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
Hannes Alfven
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
Venus Williams
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
Daniel Espinosa
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Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
Zara Phillips
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
M. H. Abrams
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
Jaan Tallinn
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
Farnaz Fassihi
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
Karen Joy Fowler
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
Ed Belfour
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
Valerie Simpson
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I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.
T. Boone Pickens
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My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.
Kara Swisher
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
Hannah Kearney
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By an ambitious chieftain, aiming only to aggrandize himself and establish his power, the subject might have been regarded in a different light; but the designs and actions of Washington centred in nobler objects, the freedom, tranquillity, and happiness of his country, in which he was to participate equally with every other citizen, neither seeking nor expecting any other preeminence than that of having been an instrument in the hand of Providence.
George Washington
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He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
Seneca the Younger
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I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere
W. S. Merwin