Ruth Pitter Quotes
Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared
Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home
Ruth Pitter
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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.
Otto Frank
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Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.
Patrick Ness
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It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way.
Zadie Smith
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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.
Eamon Duffy
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Things last either too long, or not long enough.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
Sally Ride
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If someone asked if I I'd want no one to recognise me anymore, I'd take that option, I think.
Rory Charles Graham
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For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.
Carol Klein
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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
Ruth Pitter
