Ella Maillart Quotes
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
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I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
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I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
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Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
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There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.
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I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.
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Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.
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Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.
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The security and happiness of all minority groups in South Africa depend on the Afrikaner. Whether they are English- or German- or Portuguese- or Italian-speaking, or even Jewish-speaking, makes no difference.
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You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
