John Gardner Quotes
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
Victoria Billings -
I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
B. B. King -
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
Irene Rosenfeld -
'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
Felicity Jones
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I simply believe that people who respect their customers and have faith in their own technology products should welcome competition and that consumer choice should be a paramount value in retailing.
Walt Mossberg -
It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
Sabrina Carpenter -
People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
Rachel Zoe -
The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
T. Boone Pickens -
An excess of boringness does not make a thing interesting except in the driest academic sense. A place is not boring if you have to look really hard for something which is interesting. If there is absolutely nothing interesting about any particular place, then that is a perfectly interesting and quintessentially un-boring place.
Iain Banks -
Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
Jack McDevitt
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The romantic intoning, the declaimed clairvoyance Are parts of apotheosis, appropriate And of its nature, the idiom thereof.
Wallace Stevens -
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Larry Wall -
Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
Anzia Yezierska -
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man,And broke the die, in molding Sheridan.
Lord Byron -
When Pandora doesn't pay, and bars don't pay, and weddings don't pay, and nobody buys CDs or shirts or concert tickets or lessons, then the musician can't make a living making music.
Kent Beck -
My brother Gary, who was my coach, five years my elder, studied human movements at Queensland University in Brisbane. We used to train together every day, and we'd train for so long that at the end of a session, we would physically almost collapse.
Matthew Hayden
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Some of these little girls are afraid to admit they are getting older. I am not afraid. You can't put your finger in the sun and stop time.
Katy Jurado -
It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.
Jennifer Donnelly -
Jesus did not become the 'GodKlingon' or the 'GodMartian'! Only descendants of Adam can be saved. God's Son remains the 'Godman' as our Savior.
Ken Ham -
The Cross is not the terrible end of a pious happy life. Instead, it stands at the beginning of community with Jesus Christ. Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.
John Gardner