Karen Marie Moning Quotes
Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are.
Quotes to Explore
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
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The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.
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I admire people who destroy themselves.
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It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.
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Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
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God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
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The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.
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I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.
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Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back. Remember writing doesn't love you. It doesn't care. Nevertheless, it can behave with remarkable generosity. Speak well of it, encourage others, pass it on.
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If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs
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Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
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As Christians we are here to affirm the supreme value of direct sharing, of immediate encounter -not machine to machine, but person to person, face to face.
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You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.
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In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.
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I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.
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I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.
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First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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Learn from both your mistakes and successes because if you learn only from your mistakes you will only learn more errors.
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Everyone's trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.
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Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are.
