Warsan Shire Quotes
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Being in water makes me relax instantly.
Gabriella Wilde -
No one should be left to suffer alone.
Daisaku Ikeda -
Historical science is being left in the dust.
Jack Horner -
One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
T. D. Jakes -
Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
Orlando Bloom
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
Kate Hudson -
If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
Carla Bruni -
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono -
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it. And, did we even see this, how can we make the difference? How obtain the interest which society declares she does not want, and we cannot want?
Florence Nightingale -
Fame and fortune is a magnet.It can pull you far away from homeWith a dream in your heart you're never alone.Dreams turn into dust and blow awayAnd there you are without a friend
Hal David
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Tenderly Kala nursed her little waif, wondering silently why it did not gain strength and agility as did the little apes of other mothers. It was nearly a year from the time the little fellow came into her possession before he would walk alone, and as for climbing - my, but how stupid he was!
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
My candle burned alone in an immense valley. Beams of the huge night converged upon it, Until the wind blew. Then beams of the huge night Converged upon its image, Until the wind blew.
Wallace Stevens -
My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.
Kahlil Gibran -
Every generation of Americans has come together to make our country freer, fairer, and stronger. None of us ever have or can do it alone.
Hillary Clinton -
With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The telegraph press mosaic is acoustic space as much as an electric circus.
Marshall McLuhan -
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
D. H. Lawrence -
One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.
Carla Gugino -
En somme, je fais ce que je peux, je souffre de la souffrance universelle, et je tâche de la soulager, je n'ai que les chétives forces d'un homme, et je crie à tous: aidez-moi.
Victor Hugo -
Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves, There is a nobleness of mind that heals Wounds beyond salves.
William Cartwright -
My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
Warsan Shire