Mary Oliver Quotes
I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.Mary Oliver
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
Rainbow Rowell -
If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
Larry King -
When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
Fetty Wap -
I'm an honest, open father.
T.I. -
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Ramsey Clark -
My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
Mahalia Jackson
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
Jack Nicklaus -
I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
Haile Gebrselassie -
In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
Tammy Duckworth -
The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
Fidel Castro -
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
A. C. Benson -
I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
Fiona Shaw -
What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
Victoria Moran -
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Iris Murdoch -
I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.
Carice van Houten -
Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.
Iqbal Quadir -
Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
Beau Willimon
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Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
Mary Oliver