Brian Patten Quotes
So many partings in the mind the heart Has not had the courage to follow through.
Brian Patten
Quotes to Explore
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
Edith Pearlman
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
P. J. O'Rourke
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss
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Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.
Ian Smith
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In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
Sam Kean
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I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.
Larry Hagman
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The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the people that have taken part, the top, top players have all won it. For many, it is why they have been regarded as top players.
Eden Hazard
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As I approach my 90th birthday, my friends are asking how it feels like, to have completed 90 orbits around the Sun. Well, I actually don't feel a day older than 89!
Arthur C. Clarke
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Labor’s message then is this: we believe in a strong economy; we believe also in a fair go for all, not just for some.
Kevin Rudd
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My tour manager, I met him at Boot Barn. He was selling me a pair of boots... and he said, 'I moved to Nashville to be a tour manager, and I need work right now,' and I said, 'Man, I don't even have a tour manager. So you can tour-manage me.'
Luke Combs
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It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.
Andrea Jung
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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
Don McLean
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Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.
Maya Angelou
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I really hate my hair when it's not braided because it's so big when it dries. When it's wet, it looks cool, but when it dries, it gets all in my mouth during a match, and I hate it.
Jeff Hardy
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
Bobby Fischer
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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
Ben Okri
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I loved going on the road... I think that's something everybody ought to experience one day - not necessarily as an artist, but just to get out and see the country.
Thomas Rhett
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My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.
Amy Jackson
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
Jack Irons
Pearl Jam
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The time, then, had come for him to poison himself so that an economic monopoly could be kept alive, a sprawling, interplan empire from which he now derived nothing.
Philip K. Dick
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For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.
Gary Neville
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An ideal world can definitely be created with a pure mind and optimistic results.
A. R. Rahman
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When I decided to become a Christian and decided to change my life and just totally quit screwing up, it was like, 'Wow, why didn't I do this before?' No hiding anything. I just felt so much better, not only about myself, but my future, my family. It was awesome, and it didn't take me long to realize that.
Jim Kelly
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So many partings in the mind the heart Has not had the courage to follow through.
Brian Patten
