Melissa Etheridge Quotes
You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.
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Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
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And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.
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The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.
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I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.
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We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.
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We convince by our presence.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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How we live our lives gives those we love permission to do the same. That is a power and a responsibility that we can never take lightly.
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As a young Christian, I was praying fervently one day for guidance on a particular issue when I felt the Spirit gently interrupt. I was shocked to think I heard him suggest that I was too busy seeking his will. How could that be? Then I heard the rest of his suggestion. “Don’t seek my will in this matter. Seek me—and then you will know my will.” Seeking God’s will is important, but in this case my focus was wrong.
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We wait always for something that does not come.
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I think you think that phone sex is about getting the caller off, but it's about keeping the caller on. It's about leading with your personality and making sure that they're still listening to you and that they're still interested in you because you cannot make money when they hang up.
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You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.
