Elizabeth Wein Quotes
She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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Our life is full of empty space.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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Timid salesmen have skinny kids.
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Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
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O Banner!Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them;You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money;May they stand fast then? Not an hour, unless you, above them and all, stand fast.
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This is near enough true bliss.
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The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
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It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.
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I'm very into Zodiac signs, so when I meet a fellow Scorpio, I always get really excited.
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I've been lucky in the sense that I haven't become famous.
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I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.
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In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.
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Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.
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I've actually medalled in every single swimming meet except for the Olympics, so that's the goal. I want to get on that podium - I really do. But for me, that's not something I can control... so I will be happy with going out there and swimming a race that I'm proud of.
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She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.
