Eugene Delacroix Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
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I believe that we live in a 'return to sender universe' - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
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Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.
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A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
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I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.
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It's fun to be liked, but when standing up for what you believe in, it's also very fun not to be liked.
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Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
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To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
