Diane Ackerman Quotes
As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.
Diane Ackerman
Quotes to Explore
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
Salmon P. Chase
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
Hans Blix
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This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.
Patricia Heaton
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History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
Omar Dorsey
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You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
Andrew Denton
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I believe that women would crawl across broken glass to get a cool pair of shoes.
Peter Marino
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None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.
Martin Luther
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Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me.
Adam Nevill
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On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.
Diane Ackerman
