E. L. Konigsburg Quotes
Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is always in movement.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
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God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public.
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I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.
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I am proud to be the granddaughter and daughter of immigrants who were brave enough to leave their homes and come to a whole new world with a different language and culture and immerse themselves fearlessly to start a better life for themselves and their families.
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Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.
