Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones -
When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
Fetty Wap -
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
P. D. James -
Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
Carli Lloyd -
It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
Ted Turner -
I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
Magnus Carlsen
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
Vernon Howard -
We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
Ferdinand Mount -
Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
Patrick MacGill -
Habit is the nursery of errors.
Victor Hugo -
Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well. ( Edgar Cayce On the Millennium Chapter One - The great new planet earth. )
Edgar Cayce -
Poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labor and exploitation of children … It’s a triangular relationship between child labor, poverty and illiteracy, and I have been trying to fight all of these things together.
Kailash Satyarthi
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
Queen Victoria -
Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.
Sallust -
Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.
Dan Simmons -
Two hearts, Two hearts that beat as one Our lives have just begun.
Lionel Richie -
Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are…Italy, Republic, Socialization. . .Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism…
Benito Mussolini -
The child has talent, loves music, and needs help. I can't give her money, but I can teach her; so I do, and she is the most promising pupil I have. Help one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood, Fan.
Louisa May Alcott
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'That would require an unprecedented leap of faith.''I don’t do faith,' Scorpio said.
Alastair Reynolds -
If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?
Sam Harris -
You are beautiful in every single way. Words can't bring you down.
Christina Aguilera -
Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing.
Ahdaf Soueif -
A poem is a cup of words open to the sky and wind in a bucket.
Naomi Shihab Nye