Bill Bryson Quotes
I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.
Bill Bryson
Quotes to Explore
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Candice Bergen
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
Maddie Ziegler
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
G. Gordon Liddy
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I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
Randy Harrison
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
Harold E. Varmus
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Even if you are a liberal in the Muslim world, when you see Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and you see all the other reports of abuses by American forces, it's very hard to get up and say, "We should simulate the American ways," because this is the face of America now in the Muslim world, for many Muslims.
Yaroslav Trofimov
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Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
Marcus Aurelius
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They need a new community on higher ground.
Jack Layton
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There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.
J. D. Sedding
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I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.
Bill Bryson