Virginia Woolf Quotes

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Virginia Woolf

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• When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

  

  Harri Holkeri
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• In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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• It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.

  

  H. R. McMaster
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• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
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• I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.

  

  Natalie Wood
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• If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

  

  Hamid Karzai
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• You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.

  

  Cameron Crowe
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• Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.

  

  Victor Grignard
  • Result
  • Exist
  • Acid

• I grow the vegetables my family eats. I grow enough, and we seldom buy from the market.

  

  Kariya Munda
  • Family
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• That's brain tissue. How can you-?" Claire shut her mouth, fast. "Never mind. I don't think I wanna know." "Truly, I think that's best. Please take it." He showed his teeth briefly in a very unsettling grin. "I'm giving you a piece of my mind." "I so wish you hadn't said that.

  

  Rachel Caine
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• So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
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• We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.

  

  Hal Hartley

• Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.

  

  Barack Obama
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• The new year always brings us what we want Simply by bringing us along—to see A calendar with every day uncrossed, A field of snow without a single footprint.

  

  Dana Gioia
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• Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Purpose
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• The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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• Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!

  

  Marquis De Custine
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Doubt

• This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.

  

  Azim Daudpota
  • Illusion
  • Deception
  • Ufo

• Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Illusion
  • Praise
  • Catastrophe