Black Elk Quotes
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.Black Elk
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
Irvine Welsh -
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot -
I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
Nancy Reagan -
A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
Ralph W. Sockman -
I like to discover new things.
Olivier Megaton -
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
Gabriel Marcel -
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
Salman Rushdie -
The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
Katha Pollitt -
I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
Karen Armstrong -
If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
Vic Snyder
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
Wendell Berry -
Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza -
I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
Rachel Nichols -
If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
Nancy A. Collins -
The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
Waverley Lewis Root
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
My job is to generate discussion.
Matthew Heineman -
Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.
Jamaica Kincaid -
I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
Wendy O. Williams -
I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.
Rachael Ray -
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
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