Nuala O'Faolain Quotes
Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
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For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.
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Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
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For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
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There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.
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the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.
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You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.
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Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.
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The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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We talked about how passive they were in the first quarter.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.
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You wouldn't be human if you didn't feel both a sense of responsibility and a deep sadness for those who have lost their lives.
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How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let it, hold any of us back from doing exactly what each of us needs to do to feel fulfilled.
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My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.
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Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
