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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Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, "Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.
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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
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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
