Sarah Dessen Quotes
The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.
Sarah Dessen
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It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.
Kate Bosworth
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Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
Jackson Pollock
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Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.
Saint Basil
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'I have nine lives,' said the kitten, purring softly as it walked around in a circle and then came back to the roof; 'but I can't lose even one of them by falling in this country, because I really couldn't manage to fall if I wanted to.'
L. Frank Baum
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.'
Alfred North Whitehead
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It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.
Paul Westerberg
The Replacements
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Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!
Bethany Hamilton
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You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.
Margaret Mitchell
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A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!
William Shakespeare
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A song is a mantra, something you repeat over and over. We need peace, we need giving, we need love, we need unity. I want the whole world to sing this song.
Michael Jackson
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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.
Lewis Mumford
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The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.
Sarah Dessen