Rebecca Solnit Quotes
Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.
Quotes to Explore
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
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I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.
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I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
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The whole thing with VR is that it doesn't matter, local versus networked gaming. The goal in virtual reality isn't to have people sit in the same room with headsets on.
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Monotony is poverty, whether in speech or in life.
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We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.
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All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.
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I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.
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I do not believe that the people of Ontario judge their leaders on the basis of race, sexual orientation, colour or religion. I don't believe they hold that prejudice in their hearts.
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Human love and desire is my bag.
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If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me – I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I – I might want to march out on that.
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When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.
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Evidently, it takes equally thin parts of kindness and sincerity to marry well.
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I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but treating them well and with respect seems the least we could do, and with 'we' I mean not just zoo staff, but most certainly also the public.
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Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.
