Virginia Woolf Quotes
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
Quotes to Explore
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Envy is an insult to oneself.
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I'm a jeans fanatic. It's ridiculous how many jeans I have.
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I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.
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I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.
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As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.
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If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.
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What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.
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I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else.
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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The NCAA makes so much money off of their kids, and they put ridiculous - absolutely ridiculous - restrictions on everything that they can do.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.
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We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.
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But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.
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The MMI brothers, who provided security for Malcolm X had been trained by Malcolm himself that inside of the Nation of Islam, whenever there is a diversion, you protect the principal. The principal, in this case Malcolm, clearly was not protected on February 21st [1965].
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[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .
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Patience protects you from deception
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We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.
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For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself.
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Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
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When you have law-abiding citizens who are actively ready to protect themselves and their family, that reduces crime.
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What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim "You know exactly what I mean!" depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader.
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The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.
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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
