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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Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
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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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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.
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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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Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
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There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
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Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.
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I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background.
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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
