Bette Greene Quotes
I wondered if a blessing is still a blessing if it lasts for only a little while.
Bette Greene
Quotes to Explore
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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.
Andrew Solomon
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However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.
Andrew Wiles
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We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.
Pablo Neruda
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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
J. C. Ryle
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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.
Oscar Wilde
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O woman shapely as a swan.
Padraic Colum
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But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.
Chuck Klosterman
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What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.
L. Tom Perry
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The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
Madeleine Albright
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This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.
Faith Popcorn
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Our adversity is never just for us, but to bless others around us.
O. J. Brigance
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You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least in a cautionary tale, you have this idea that by listening to the story you can assure a better outcome. Whereas I'm not at all convinced that's the case. In fact, if anything, I'm convinced that it's the opposite.
Errol Morris
