Willa Cather Quotes
The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
Quotes to Explore
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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You think it impossible the Convention could have a thought of war with Great Britain, and the conquest of Canada. In this point I differ from you very widely. The conduct of Great Britain, and the conduct of our States, too, was such as to keep up very serious apprehensions between the two powers. The treaty of peace was not fulfilled on either side.
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Dreams and reality are united in our imagination. The artist possesses the means to create only after he has effective command of his faculty of empathy which he must develop simultaneously with his imaginative capacity.
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An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
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Political correctness is tyranny with manners.
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I belong to you. He has no idea what he's up against. And that will get him in the end. I believe that. Everything's going to come right for you." "And you," Kami said again. "If everything's right for you," Jared said at last, "everything's right for me.
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The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
