Madeleine L'Engle Quotes
What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.
Quotes to Explore
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I'm evangelical.
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I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun.
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'I'm still glad that we didn't shake their hands. They were whiners and criers. Piss on them.'
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Guitar can take you far; from Brooklyn To The Sky...!
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As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them.
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Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.
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What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.
