Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.
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It has often struck me with awe that some of the most deeply religious people I know have been, on the surface, atheists.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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It was immigration that taught us, it does not matter where you came from, or who your parents were. What counts is who you are.
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
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The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
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...death seemed the most prevalent feature of the landscape.
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Birthdays was the worst days; now we sip champagne when we're thirsty.
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They make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits their object, neglecting whatever is unrelated to it and carefully setting aside everything which might tend toward the idea they wish to combat.
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Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.
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The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king!
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For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.
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Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.
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There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.
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At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.
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The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations' that the Earth was found to revolve around the sun, and not the other way round, and that a mould growing in one of Dr. Alexander Fleming's dishes was found to be capable of destroying bacteria. When in 1989 the spacecraft Voyager 2 got close enough to the planet Naptune to take detailed pictures of the surface, they were 'contrary to all expectations'.
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I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.
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When I first started in the business, it was hardly ever done. But today, it almost feels like studios go out and preview movies knowing full well that they're going to use the information they get to go back and reshoot.
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He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.
