Mary Oliver Quotes
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I have to be seen to be believed.
Queen Elizabeth II -
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Ralph Fiennes -
On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
Victor LaValle -
If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
Baz Luhrmann -
There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.
J. C. Ryle -
I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.
Zeljko Ivanek
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I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
Carlene Carter -
HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.
Edmond H. Fischer -
A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.
Ted Ligety -
Don't you find that the more you know, the more you don't know and can't ever learn because there's too much stuff out there?
Larry Hagman -
The conviction that freedom is a universal desire is not the property of any political camp. ... Yet those who hold it remain a precious few, outnumbered many times over by the skeptics who don't.
Natan Sharansky
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The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.
Wen Jiabao -
Schon ist mein Blick am Hügel, dem besonnten, dem Wege, den ich kaum begann, voran. So fasst uns das, was wir nicht fassen konnten, voller Erscheinung, aus der Ferne an-und wandelt uns, auch wenn wirs nicht erreichen, in jenes, das wir, kaum es ahnend, sind; ein Zeichen weht, erwidernd unserm Zeichen... Wir aber spüren nur den Gegenwind.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I was looking for a name like the Crickets that meant two things, and from crickets I got to beetles. And I changed to B E A because … B E E T L E S didn't mean two things, so I changed … the E to an A. And it meant two things then. … When you said it, people thought of crawly things; and when you read it, it was beat music.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Here we are out here, me and you.Reaching out to each otherIs all that we can do.Here we stand trying not to fall.There's no need to worry,Love will conquer all.
Lionel Richie -
The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song - not one. Not two.
Anthony de Mello -
Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing-finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.
Leo Tolstoy
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He who dallies is a dastard, He who doubts is damned.
Edmond Hoyle -
I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.
Manny Pacquiao -
I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.
Michael Shannon -
... to say that the CIA and the KGB engage in similar practices is the equivalent of saying that the man who pushes an old lady into the path of a hurtling bus is not to be distinguished from the man who pushes an old lady out of the path of a hurtling bus: on the grounds that, after all, in both cases someone is pushing old ladies around.
William Francis Buckley -
I like books that are fat and full.
Mary Oliver