Colin Falconer (Colin Bowles) Quotes
We make such plans for our lives, she thinks, and this is the way they turn out, nothing like what we imagine.
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A woman should be an illusion.
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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The roughest road often leads to the top.
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A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.
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There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.
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Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
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I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.
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There is always one person in the office that you want to whip their ass! If you don't know who it is, it is probably you.
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I've said consistently that I always reserve the right, in conjunction with a broader international effort, to prevent genocide or any wholesale slaughter than might happen inside of Iraq or anyplace else.
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I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.
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Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.
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Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate.
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Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And then, when you reached forty, someone put a mirror before you for the first time in your life. Imagine your fright! You'd see the face of a stranger. And you'd know quite clearly what you are unable to grasp: your face is not you.
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We make such plans for our lives, she thinks, and this is the way they turn out, nothing like what we imagine.
