Arthur Gordon Webster Quotes
Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.
Quotes to Explore
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Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.
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Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.
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Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel.
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A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.
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Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
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When Russians were having troubles, the Space Shuttle supported the Space Station Mir bringing up much needed supplies and replacements, critical spares, really. That they were able to keep their space station going for much longer than they would have without us. So, I think that shows the value of international cooperation.
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Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
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The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it's the other things which are the more permanent and real.
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Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
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Well, there is a tide also in the affair of getting up in the morning, and its flood-point is the precise instant when you recover consciousness. At that moment every one, I believe, has moral courage to leap violently out of bed; but let that moment pass, and you sink supinely back, if not to sleep, at least into a desperate condition of unconquerable lethargy.
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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.
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For the parents, it is a way to be young physically and emotionally for awhile and not have to deal with the troubles of the world.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
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I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.
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Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.
