Willa Cather Quotes

If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.

Willa Cather

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• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
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• Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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• Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.

  

  Victoria Moran
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• I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.

  

  Yani Tseng
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• The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.

  

  Larry David
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• Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Men
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• No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Country
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• I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.

  

  Hank Azaria
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  • Done
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• You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • God
  • Education
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• In comparison to other women in the world, perhaps I'm seen as smaller. But I've never had a problem thinking of myself as a large woman.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • World
  • Thinking
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• Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Bad
  • Team
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• I'm not a publicity hound, I hope.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Hope
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• The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

  

  Jack Markell
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• You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

  

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• Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
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  • Law
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• Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • People
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  Yohan Blake
  • Night
  • Working
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• Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Believe
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  • Earth

• A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • God
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  • Soldier

• I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.

  

  John Paul Jones
  • Life
  • Good
  • Heart

• If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Night
  • Earth
  • Prayer