Geraldine Brooks Quotes
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
Geraldine Brooks
Quotes to Explore
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To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.
Lodewijk Fluttert
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If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.
R. C. Sproul
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Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.
Louise Rennison
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In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it is safe to say, this property will reach a sum exceeding $3 billion. I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.
Ulysses S. Grant
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If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty bodies; the randy father, the husband holding ice in his hand like a blessing, the mother bleeding into herself and the small imploding girl, i say if i should walk into that web, who will come flying after me, leaping tall buildings? you?
Lucille Clifton
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Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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Although we should not love our friends for the good that they do us, it is a sign that they do not love us much if they do not do us good when they have the power to do so.
Madeleine de Souvre
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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
J. G. Holland
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Deciding what gets my time is very simple: I ask, What am I passionate about?
Jane Rosenthal
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.
Eugene Ionesco
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The sound of madness is life. It's waking up in the morning to your alarm clock, your kid crying for you, hearing the sound of the city, it's everything. Madness isn't necessarily a negative thing, it can be a positive thing. You know, hearing them cry for you, if you have children, is a great thing, it's your child.
Barry Kerch
