Melissa Etheridge Quotes
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
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Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
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I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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Forever, we all had a real clear understanding of what Parcells' teams looked like and played like: tough as hell and didn't beat themselves.
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Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.
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Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.
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If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
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We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.
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Their own strength has betrayed them. They have...pulled down Deep Heaven on their heads.
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Knowst thou the land where the lemon trees bloom,Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom,Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows,And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose?
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And in the morning when the sun rise.Look in the water, see the blue sky.As if heaven has been laid there at our feet.
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
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The trouble with fiction… is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt.
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We are our own aptest deceiver.
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I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way, and you know you're not quite there, and you're redoing it and redoing it, and there's a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard. It's a job of tremendous anxiety for me.
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I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.
