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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
Robert H. Schuller
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When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.
Lao Tzu
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
Natalie Dormer
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Don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think. And don't try to read my mind, because it's full of disappearing ink.
Elvis Costello
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How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it.
Carolyn Parkhurst
