Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.
Radhanath Swami -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
Immanuel Kant -
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
Victoria Woodhull -
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
Nancy Gibbs -
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
E. W. Howe
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
Hallie Ephron -
Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.
Wallace Shawn -
I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
Mandy Patinkin -
The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.
Hank Azaria -
Yes I did when I was at university 30 years ago, just for a short time.
Harriet Harman -
Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.
Kin Hubbard
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
Aristophanes -
Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to lose,Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose.Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night;You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light.
Sarah McLachlan -
I guess I don’t subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread.
Art Spiegelman -
Jennifer Aniston is a genius.
Emma Roberts -
The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.
Ellen G. White
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A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.
Virginia Euwer Wolff -
When Democrats concede the idea that some voters are not our voters, we shouldn't be surprised when those voters agree.
Jason Kander -
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.
Oprah Winfrey -
My heart yields dividends unseen; thou art my soul's annuity.
Catherynne M. Valente