Stevie Smith Quotes
I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.
Quotes to Explore
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.
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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
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When I was young, my parents were these titanic, infallible figures. But Mum's illness and Dad's battles with diabetes and heart attacks had a ripple effect on me - reminding me of my own mortality and that these illnesses are genetic.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.
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Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
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Thinking of the sun makes my heart beat faster - too fast! What darkness! From this night winter begins.
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A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
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I believed then - in a deep, easy way that is impossible for me as an adult - that there was more to this world than meets the eye. Trees had spirits; the wind spoke. If you followed a toad or a raven deep into the heart of the forest, they were sure to lead you to something magical.
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You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.
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Obesity puts our children at risk of developing serious diseases - such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression. It keeps our children from performing their best at school.
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As I've told my three daughters, all of whom I've at one time encouraged to go into macro trading, any man or woman can do anything to which they set their heart and mind.
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I wear my heart on my sleeve.
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When I'm on the court, I try to play with all my emotion and heart.
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I've never had my heart broken.
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I only had one focus and one direction, and I knew where my spirit and heart lived, and it was in singing and dancing and acting, being that. I know a lot of young people dream that, but it's good that it worked out for me because it was all I ever wanted to do.
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So many people have touched my heart and made an impact on my world. I'm thankful for every lesson and learning experience.
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People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.
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It should be said that we are presently, and I believe unfairly, constrained from directly promoting cigarettes to the youth market...Realistically, if our Company is to survive and prosper, over the long term, we must get our share of the youth market. In my opinion, this will require new brands tailored to the youth market.
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You'll change your tune quickly enough when some banshee's sucking your soul out through your pupils.
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Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.
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I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.
