Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Quotes to Explore
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.
R. Lee Ermey
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Christ's Passion, viewed from within, is of a diversity that the biblical texts and images leave hidden; but numerous mystics through the centuries have been allowed to experience a great deal of it in ever-varying aspects-if only by drops, as it were, compared with the Son of God.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
Alexander Pope
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Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
Jacques Audiard
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I love hiking out to Fallen Leaf Lake. It's a beautiful spot to go hike around, and it's at the base of one of the biggest mountains, Mount Tallac! And of course, I love to hit Sierra at Tahoe for snowboarding.
Jamie Anderson
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When you're dying and your life is flashing before your eyes, you're gonna be thinking about the great things that you did, the horrible things that you did and the emotional impact that someone had on you and that you had on somebody else. Those are the things that are relevant. To have some sort of emotional impact that transcends your time, that's great. As long as you don't mess it up by being undignified when you're old.
Courtney Love
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I wouldLove you ten years before the Flood,And you should, if you please, refuseTill the conversion of the Jews.My vegetable love should growVaster than empires and more slow.
Andrew Marvell
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
Oscar Wilde
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We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
Mignon McLaughlin