Olive Schreiner Quotes
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.
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One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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Fashion is anything which is you and reflects your personality, and if you are comfortable with what you wearing, you'll look trendy and fashionable for sure.
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I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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I get out of the pool after a workout and look on my BlackBerry to see if the nanny called and to make sure everything's okay. My child is always on my mind.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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If God is as real as the shadow of the Great War on Armistice Day, need we seek further reason for making a place for God in our thoughts and lives? We shall not be concerned if the scientific explorer reports that he is perfectly satisfied that he has got to the bottom of things without having come across either.
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No matter what you do, black lace tends to look a little Spanish.
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Anyone who is secure about herself shouldn't be threatened by the ads I do.
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
