Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes
It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.
Quotes to Explore
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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Football is my true love. I played with boys until I was 11 and then for a girls' club in Middlesbrough until I was 16.
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Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.
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'The Descent,' 'Dog Soldiers,' those films, I've loved for years, and the tones of those.
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My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.
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And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator.
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The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.
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It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.
