Barbara Hurd Quotes
To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I love my sleep.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.
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It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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I am 100% there when I'm doing what I'm doing when I'm onstage and recording. I don't ever want to look back at any moment and say to myself that I felt uncomfortable with who I am.
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Today, begin to believe right by choosing to know and believe in the powerful truths of God’s Word and in His love for you.
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I don't cook. I love to eat. I love to go to the restaurants.
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“Love is a journey from the first blush of physical attraction to a marriage of souls.”
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To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.
