Ruth Pitter Quotes
Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
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He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
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In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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You alone are enough.
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I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.
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My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.
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How could I have known how much it meant for her to see a patch of blue sky, to observe the flying seagulls, or how important that chestnut tree was to her, when she had never shown an interest in nature before. But once she felt like a caged bird, how she longed for it. Even just the thought of the open air gave her comfort, but she kept all these feelings to herself.
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Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.
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If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.
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Things last either too long, or not long enough.
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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.
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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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Be dissatisfied enough to improve, but satisfied enough to be happy.
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When there's love enough you can stand anything. When there isn't, you can stand nothing. Living together every day you find out a lot you didn't know, and love can't keep still. It's got to grow or die.
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I used to think hard work made me come alive, honestly. I used to have a daily work schedule with millions of things on it and I thought, "This is wonderful!"
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Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.
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Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home
