Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul.
Quotes to Explore
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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My sister's a singer, and she's on Twitter, and she has millions of followers. I wonder how that helps her. I think it does to an extent. I think she gets free things.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I hate seaweed.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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I don't like concrete jungles.
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Failing to plan is planning to fail. Plan Each Day, Each Week, Each Semester. You can always change your plan, but only once you have one!
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Men are still playing protector of women’s transitions, and both sexes expect only men to make transitions on their own.
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The first blow is half the battle.
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I believe we have this enormous brains with the ability to process so much information for a purpose – because we were made in God's image, not in the image of an amoeba.
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It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.
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Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
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What happens with artists, or people who start off doing things for the right reasons, is that you slowly start to paint yourself into a corner by doing what people outside of the creative world are asking you to do, and I think that's antithetical to being an artist.
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I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it's a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.
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'you don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow'
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul.
