Kiersten White Quotes
Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless
Quotes to Explore
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Think and grow rich.
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I can paint in jail.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.
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We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
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I don't look like that and I don't desire to look like that.
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Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved.
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They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed-run over, maimed, destroyed-but they continued to play anyhow.
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The birthday of my lifeIs come, my love is come to me.
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Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.
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Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless
