Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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'If you run before God, you cannot run after God.'
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I always revisit duality because I think it's a conflict we all have. I think we all leave our house and go to work, and we put on the cape and become superheroes. That's what we do. It's how we move through life and handle negativity: you do everything you can to stay away from it.
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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.
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I am so lucky to have really good parents. They didn't hesitate to let us go to L.A. They didn't hesitate, because they knew that they raised their kids the right way: to be able to live by themselves and not get caught up by L.A.
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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
