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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You alone are enough.
Oprah Winfrey
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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.
Dale Murphy
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My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.
Neil Diamond
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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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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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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
Adolf Loos
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Be dissatisfied enough to improve, but satisfied enough to be happy.
J. Harold Smith
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First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.
Chuck Klosterman
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May not undermine the president as he leads us into war, and they may not give comfort to our adversaries, but they come mighty close.
Dennis Hastert
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To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm not really inspired to do, then why am I doing it? I don't know if that sounds sort of new agey or whatever, but it's true. I've been lucky enough to have a musical career that has gone pretty good and acting is something I have always wanted to do.
Justin Timberlake
NSYNC
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I'm one of those guys where you know, I'm 23 years into this and I love the road more than ever and rather than whittling down my schedule to just play the major cities, I've actually expanded the amount of places that I go to because I want to see a bunch of stuff. You know, plan it as I can while I'm still young enough to travel.
Bill Burr
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I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.
Naima Adedapo
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Gender equality is essential for ensuring that men and women can contribute fully at home, at work, and in public life for the betterment of societies and economies at large.
Jose Angel Gurria
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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
