Sarah Waters Quotes

.. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me.

Sarah Waters

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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
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• You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

  

  Ian Botham
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• Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'

  

  Yusuf Hamied
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• An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
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• That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
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• I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.

  

  L'Wren Scott
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• Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!

  

  Patricia Sun
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• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
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• I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

  

  Taylor Momsen
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• Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• Besides, isn't there something in the book of rules about a man may not marry his cousin? Or am I thinking of grandmothers?

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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• The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

  

  Paul Wellstone
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• Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
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• A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

  

  Paul Auster
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• I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes.

  

  Bill Rodgers
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• Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.

  

  Etta James
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• .. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Thinking
  • Mad
  • Longing