Mark Helprin Quotes
The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes.
Mark Helprin
Quotes to Explore
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Paddy Ashdown
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Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
Felicity Huffman
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
Dan Brown
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
Yann Martel
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
Sam Hunt
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In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.
Irina Shayk
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
Hannah Tointon
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What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.
Olivier Theyskens
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Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.
Malaika Arora Khan
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
Haley Bennett
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I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
Lady Gaga
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Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.
Finley Peter Dunne
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"Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happiness.
Saint Augustine
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Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.
P. W. Botha
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What the eyes see, the heart must believe.
Dai Vernon
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The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes.
Mark Helprin
