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 want to be invisible.
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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living....
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I would rather talk to the mirror than to the press. There is a part of me that remains within me and the rest goes out to the public.
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For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.
