Madeleine L'Engle Quotes
When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
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You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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Ch. 3, Section 1
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I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation.
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So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
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It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people the Filipinos free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
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This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher.
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When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.
