Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
For a few minutes the anxiety that tormented him had vanished, leaving his mind as serene as the beauty he looked at. Very lovely, he thought, are the sudden moments of relief that come in the midst of strain, those moments of forgetfulness when we are "teased out of thought" by a bird or a flower or the sight of old roofs in the sun; lovely though so transient, the reversal of those brief moments of misery that visit us even in the midst of joy.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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I was very rebellious.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.
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Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
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Investing in people is the single most important thing in the knowledge economy. Traditionally, wealth was defined by land and natural resources. Today the most important resources is between our ears.
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The Mandelbrot set covers a small space yet carries a large number of different implications. Is it a fitting epitaph? Absolutely.
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Men out of fear will cling to the thing they most fear.
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Fashion is a weapon that you can use when you need it.
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I remember sitting on the back of the bus on the first day of the Social Experiment tour with my face in my hands. I emptied out my bank account, and before I did that tour, that was the number one thing I said I'd never do. I'll never empty out my savings.
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Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
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The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not.
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I think it's very important to emphasize that there are many, many different educational institutions in what we call higher education, and they educate an enormous diversity of students. I think all of those institutions have to define particular roles for themselves; they can't do everything at once.
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I do not watch television, never have.
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Rabbit feels as if the human race is a vast colourful jostling bristling parade in which he is limping and falling behind.
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The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.
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I had learnt to seek intensity — more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
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I'm not a trust-fund type.
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For a few minutes the anxiety that tormented him had vanished, leaving his mind as serene as the beauty he looked at. Very lovely, he thought, are the sudden moments of relief that come in the midst of strain, those moments of forgetfulness when we are "teased out of thought" by a bird or a flower or the sight of old roofs in the sun; lovely though so transient, the reversal of those brief moments of misery that visit us even in the midst of joy.
