Ellen Meloy Quotes
Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.
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No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
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I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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Expanding traditional energy sources like large-scale hydropower does not mean just accepting what Northern Pass has put on the table, and no one should accept Northern Pass's assertion that the only way for New England to access Canadian hydropower is to trade away the majestic beauty of the White Mountains.
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
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I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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The history of Guitar Hero is pretty spectacular. Really, I don't know of another franchise that has captured the imagination of the world so quickly and so powerfully and so positively in such a short period of time.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
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Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any high degree; only about as much as is used in the lower kinds of poetry.
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I'll be dead and you'll think about this day and wonder which of us was more the slave, you or me!
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I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.
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We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread.
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Fortune is lavish with her favors, but not to be depended on. Nature on the other hand is self-sufficing, and therefore with her feebler but trustworthy resources she wins the greater meed of hope.
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Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.
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Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.
