Edith M. Thomas Quotes
I gave thee what could not be heard
What had not been given before
The beat of my heart I gave !
Edith M. Thomas
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The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
P. J. O'Rourke
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When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.
Ted Lindsay
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When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
Pablo Picasso
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When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are accepting an institutional role that requires you to make hard decisions and hard choices, and as a consequence you have to take your moral sense and not put it aside.
Barack Obama
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Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.
Jimmy Buffett
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Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.
Melanie Klein
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I bet John Elliott can't make a glass of beer… [Whereas R M Williams can make his own products.
R. M. Williams
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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
Robert H. Schuller
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He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that has been mixed into dough so that it leavens the whole mass; ...Just as by melting two candles together you get one piece of wax, so, I think, one who receives the Flesh and Blood of Jesus is fused together with Him by this Communion, and the soul finds that he is in Christ and Christ is in him
Cyril of Alexandria
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The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance.
Hu Shih
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
Natalie Dormer
