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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When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.
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I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
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In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.
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The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow.
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There is no gratitude for things past. Gratitude is always for what you're going to do for people in the future.
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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.
