Elizabeth Oakes Smith Quotes
How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight.
Quotes to Explore
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
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Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.
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The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
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I have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-looking.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
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I go to a meeting every day. I surround myself with people who don't use. I recently got back from Ozzfest and I caught myself in kind of a sticky situation where I was around a lot of people using, drinking and it was kind of - I didn't have the urge to use once, but I just knew I shouldn't have been there.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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When love's the culmination / of everything you feel / then it's the only thing that's precious / it's the only thing that's real
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Not everyone knows when to be silent and when to go. It not infrequently happens that even diplomatic persons of good worldly breeding fail to observe that their presence is arousing a feeling akin to hatred in their exhausted or busy host, and that this feeling is being concealed with an effort and disguised with a lie.
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What gives me strength is thinking about my children.
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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I'm one of the best finishers in the business, so I went for it.
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Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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When I say 'Clean water was only served to the fairer skin,' what I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make.
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By erasing barriers of races, colors, continents, genres, or languages, we can achieve the whole world moving their head to the same beat.
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It is through our oneness with God and His people that His glory is revealed through us, leading the world to believe in Him.
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One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don't invite the losing team to the White House. They don't have parades for them. They don't throw confetti on them.
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How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight.
