Ellen Glasgow Quotes
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Ellen Glasgow
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
Abraham Verghese
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
Vijay Sethupathi
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Carl Jung
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It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.
Vicki Lawrence
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God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
Yehuda Berg
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I believe in music.
Zubin Mehta
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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Harriet Tubman
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What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.
Betty Sue Flowers
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Warden Chandler: PS-Why, yes, I can in fact capitalize any words I desire. The language is English. I am English. Therefore mine is the opinion which matters, colonial heathen.
Jim Butcher
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For God's sake, take care of your men. If they fire, they die!
Henry Knox
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I have visited (Burma) and I know that there is only one instrument of government, and that is the army...If I were Aung San Suu Kyi, I think I'd rather be behind a fence and be a symbol than after two or three years, be found impotent.
Lee Kuan Yew
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Ellen Glasgow