Sarah Monette Quotes
I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?
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Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
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Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regime, the terrible oppression of women in Gulf states, and the mass hanging festivals in Iran?
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It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
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I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
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Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
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The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth. p. 92
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The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.
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He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
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I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our country - energy and malaise.
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Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.
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If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.
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Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.
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I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?
