Rebecca Solnit Quotes
The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest.Rebecca Solnit
Quotes to Explore
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The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
Daniel D. Palmer -
The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
Rafik Hariri -
I was a tomboy.
Rachel Weisz -
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
Orison Swett Marden -
I do not cook.
Edie Falco -
I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
Yakov Smirnoff
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
Pamela Anderson -
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
Jackie Kennedy -
The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
S. Jay Olshansky -
I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
Viktor Yanukovych -
My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
Orlando Bloom
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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
J. Donald Walters -
Age is just a number. Who cares how old the girl is that I date?
Niall Horan One Direction -
My personal style is a mixture of, like, girly, throwback, like retro '50s pin-ups, floral, like hippies, like anything feminine, and like flirty.
Ariana Grande -
People had so much respect for George Mitchell. They wanted to cooperate with him. I think that's a hallmark of a very good leader.
Barbara Mikulski -
If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.
Angelina Jolie -
In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
Sam Harris
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It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.
Missi Pyle -
The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
Poverty does more to bring out the worst in people and conceal the best than anything else in the world.
Elsie Lincoln Benedict -
The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest.
Rebecca Solnit