Catherine Fisher Quotes
I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.
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I'd better make hay while the sun shines.
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Establish who you are, and don't let anybody dress you up or change the way you are, and stay true to yourself.
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I didn't mean to turn you on.
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We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don't completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art.
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You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can’t expect the world to be better than we make it.
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Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves.
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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.
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Even with the darkest and most distressing subjects in movies there's always going to be humour not far away, just under the surface. And it does help otherwise we'd just get ourselves into a massive trough of depression if there wasn't humour just around the corner.
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Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.
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You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescense, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.
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One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail.
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The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths.
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Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.
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I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.
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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet.
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But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of.
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It will become clear in the following chapters that Jesus was not originally considered to be God in any sense at all, and that he eventually became divine for his followers in some sense before he came to be thought of as equal with God Almighty in an absolute sense. But the point I stress is that this was, in fact, a development.
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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
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Wherever you go, God be with you.
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I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.
