Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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People take things so seriously.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.
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My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.
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I love to bake. I like to bake with wheat and try not to eat sugar, so I use applesauce instead, which probably sounds really gross.
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I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
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Now that you've grown up You can finally learn to be a child We made it to the end of the world But we'll never make it out alive.
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People have preposterous ideas about what those songs are about and what the music means. They start spouting all this shit that’s so far off the mark, it’s revolting. But if that’s how they derive pleasure, who am I to deprive them of it? Let ’em enjoy it. It’s there for their edification. But total comprehension is out of the question.
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It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.
