Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.
Catherynne M. Valente
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To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.
Adam Grant
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All children are manipulators.
Orson Scott Card
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Truth does not hurt, rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain.
Vernon Howard
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To those who know thee not, no words can paint!And those who know thee, know all words are faint!
Hannah More
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'You will be very welcome,' answered Dorothy, 'for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.' 'They really are,' said the Lion, 'but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.'
L. Frank Baum
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Howarth began to see that, however much it was against one’s will and convictions, sides had to be taken, the dreary corrupt world of politics had to be entered by the good and dispassionate, to protect and avenge the weak. But one always entered too late.
Anthony Burgess
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I'm not a gay man, but I will say this: I get it now. I know what all the hype is about.
Kevin James
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. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.
Lao Tzu
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The earths is large enough for all to share, but mankind's heart is not large enough to care.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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If the truth was a woman she’d be a whore. She’d be an extremely supple, highly sinuous, ridiculously wanton slut.
Nicola Barker
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Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.
Ernst Haeckel
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This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.
Catherynne M. Valente