Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
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Silence is also conversation.
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The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.
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Silence is a source of great strength.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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If you're asking me in a general context whether I'm for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the burkini.
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There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.
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Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.
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What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest.
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In secret we metIn silence I grieve,That thy heart could forget,Thy spirit deceive.If I should meet theeAfter long years,How should I greet thee?With silence and tears.
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In Barnette, we held that a public school student could not be compelled to recite the Pledge; we did not even hint that she could not be compelled to observe respectful silence. . . . Logically, that ought to be the next target for the Court's bulldozer.
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The man who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of sophistical sciences which lead to an eternal quackery.
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While the children laughed I was always afraid Of the Smile of the clown So I close my eyes Till I can't see the light And I hide from the sound We're two of a Kind Silence and I We need a chance to talk things over Two of a kind Silence and I
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.
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I love the Capitol rotunda. It's just so big and so grand, and I love being in the Capitol at night when it's empty, and you can go stand in the Capitol rotunda and bask in the silence of history. You can sort of imagine all of the things that have happened inside that Rotunda from presidents lying in state to other important events.
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Silence is better than unmeaning words.
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
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As the chart of the unknown becomes filled in, judgment of the most profitable course to follow changes. Mysterious inlets may prove dead ends or may open into vast seas.
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Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
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The ultimate goal is two states for two people: Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people and the State of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people - each state in joined self-determination, mutual recognition, and peace.
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Art is not to show people who you are; it is to show people who they are.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
