Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth.
Quotes to Explore
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.
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I do not like violence.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.
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I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.
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Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen's world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.
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Between the conceptionAnd the creationBetween the emotionAnd the responseFalls the Shadow
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Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.
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What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.
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All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!
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It will all come back - the wasted splendor, The heart's lost youth like a breaking flower, The dauntless dare, and the wistful, tender Touch of the April hour.
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We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.
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My hope is that we revive 'monopoly' as a core piece of political rhetoric that broadly denotes dominant firms with pernicious powers.
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Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth.
