Elizabeth Wein Quotes
A part of me will always be unflyable, stuck in the climb.
Elizabeth Wein
Quotes to Explore
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Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.
E. O. Wilson
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Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.
Tom Stoppard
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Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Cather
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A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.
Sarah Waters
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When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.
John Ruskin
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When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.
Rumi
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Since the state was dismantled in Iraq, institutions have disappeared and people have withdrawn into their clans and tribes.
Ayad Allawi
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The world is changing. We all know this. And as that world changes, if you don't transform your company, you're stuck.
Ursula Burns
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I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.
Cassie Steele
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A part of me will always be unflyable, stuck in the climb.
Elizabeth Wein
