Jim Crace Quotes
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
Maika Monroe -
I find when I'm more awake, I tend to think more of the structure and movement of a tune, abrupt transitions, etc.; things becoming more composed.
Aaron Funk -
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Victor Hugo -
That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
Maeve Binchy -
I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to not only to remind us that we're not alone - for example, if we are grieving the loss of someone - but also to help us celebrate our joys. That's why so many people I know who've gotten married will have a poem read at the wedding.
Natasha Trethewey
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'You are dictatorial.' My dear sirs, you are right, that is just what we are. All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.
Mao Zedong -
Men are seizing on Jesus as the exponent of their own social convictions. They all claim him. ...But in truth Jesus was not a social reformer of the modern type... he approached these facts purely from the moral, and not from the economic or historical point of view.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
Between going and staying the day wavers,
Octavio Paz -
I grew up in war-torn Iraq, and I believe that there are two sides of wars and we've only seen one side of it. We only talk about one side of it. But there's another side that I have witnessed as someone who lived in it and someone who ended up working in it.
Zainab Salbi -
I've always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I've been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.
Larry Bird -
Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usuallyright.
Larry Wall -
I love research. I love learning...
Anna Sui -
Islam is not a religion of peace. It's a political theory of conquest that seeks domination by any means it can.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
The sexual deviance - I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that; but we do have hints of it but in a more psychological way and therefore more human way, arguably. Or certainly to the extent that the animated series takes that sexuality.
Marton Csokas -
Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
Desiderius Erasmus -
Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.
Bruce Kent
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My - I grew up in - I grew up in public housing. My dad, for most of my life, worked for the post office, which was a terrific job to get because you couldn't lose your job.
Lloyd Blankfein -
After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.
Charlotte Bronte -
How often had he longed to hold us, hug us, grant our every wish, but held himself back for fear of letting us see his vulnerability, believing as he did that real love demanded not affection but discipline?
Clarence Thomas -
I don't want to be one of those people who falls out of cabs drunk. But I don't want to be known as some boring girl who just sits at home and doesn't do anything.
Pixie Lott -
I've never finished anything by Dickens.
Jim Crace