Johannes Tauler Quotes
You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.
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I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.
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In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on 'Homeland.' I love playing her, not just because she's a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.
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I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.
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And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have tried to beat my record.
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You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.
