Diane Ackerman Quotes
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Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.
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The Rope a Dope would not have existed without the Big Dope.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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I am the beast at the end of the rope.
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For them to have the season that they had, for them to have us on the ropes ... Congrats to the Cavs.
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You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.
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I embraced loneliness as a kid. I know what loneliness is. When you're at the end of your rope. I never forget those feelings.
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A man called, wanting to borrow a rope. "You cannot have it," said Nasrudin. "Why not?" "Because it is in use." "But I can see it just lying there, on the ground." "That's right: that's its use."
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An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.
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The thing about Instagram and fashion is that is has absolutely taken down the sense of the velvet rope and has pulled the curtain aside on the entire experience that used to be for a select 100 people in the world. Now it is there for millions of people to consume.
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Candidate Trump held out his hand to Vladimir Putin. He rejected further U.S. intervention in Syria other than to smash ISIS.
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We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.
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But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.
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“Be not grieved above the measure for thy deceased loved ones. They are not dead, but have only finished the journey which it is necessary for every one of us to take. We ourselves must go to that great place of reception in which they are all of them assembled, and in this general rendezvous of mankind, live together in another state of being.”
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I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set up to assist the fledgling labour movement. It was not a company, nor a statutory board, nor a government department - in fact it did not exist at all as a legal entity. Thus in slightly unorthodox circumstances I became part of that struggle.
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What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
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Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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I try to show everybody Iceland all the time. My people are like, "Don't tell everybody the secret. It's so peaceful and beautiful here!" It's incredible; I go home and drive across country, and go to my mom's place and it's dark with the Northern Lights, and I like to sit in some hot springs.
