Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
If we are to flourish as creative beings, if we are to grow into wholeness, we must bloom wherever we are planted.
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I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.
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At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded.
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I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different facts, same emotions.
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There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!
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Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
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He who will not economize will agonize.
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The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.
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Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."
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I've been playing music most of my life.
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We want to play. We weren't part of it.
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Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
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Busyness has become such a social value that we will even create it, we will create that sense of breathlessness because we think that's how we show status and importance. That is a really interesting and troubling finding. We've taken this notion of hard work to a crazy degree.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex.
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Whatever the particular call is, the particular sacrifice God asks you to make, the particular cross He wishes you to embrace, whatever the particular path He wants you to tread, will you rise up, and say in your heart, "Yes, Lord, I accept it; I submit, I yield, I pledge myself to walk in that path, and to follow that Voice, and to trust Thee with the consequences"? Oh! but you say, "I don't know what He will want next." No, we none of us know that, but we know we shall be safe in His hands.
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If we are to flourish as creative beings, if we are to grow into wholeness, we must bloom wherever we are planted.
