Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
He remembered suddenly, at this moment, as he looked at the squares of moonlight lying on the floor, the time when he had first realized that pain is a thing that we must face and come to terms with if life is to be lived with dignity an not merely muddled through like an evil dream... In some vague way he had understood that dark things are necessary; without them the silver moonlight would just stream away into nothingness, but with them it can be held and arranged into beautiful squares.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
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I want to take a close look at the SBA to see what works, what doesn't, what is duplicative, and what isn't even being utilized. We'll focus on what they do well and strengthen those areas.
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
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When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.
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How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!
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Cause all I know is we said helloAnd your eyes look like coming home.All I know is a simple name, everything has changed.All I know is we held the door,You'll be mine and I'll be yours.All I know since yesterday is everything has changed.
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Fu il vincer sempremai laudabil cosa,Vincasi o per fortuna o per ingegno.
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When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.
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Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.
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I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.
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My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck.
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I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.
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The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem.
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I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.
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My own personal tweets are very limited. I think I have, like, 68 followers on my personal Twitter.
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The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.
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What you did, nobody wants to know about it, unless you did something exciting.
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He remembered suddenly, at this moment, as he looked at the squares of moonlight lying on the floor, the time when he had first realized that pain is a thing that we must face and come to terms with if life is to be lived with dignity an not merely muddled through like an evil dream... In some vague way he had understood that dark things are necessary; without them the silver moonlight would just stream away into nothingness, but with them it can be held and arranged into beautiful squares.
