Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.
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I am a woman above everything else.
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We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.
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We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss.
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There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s peaceful, determined struggle for social justice, and Sargent Shriver, who launched the Peace Corps, were early heroes. A career of public service was the ultimate aspiration.
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The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.
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I go crazy trying to energize people, 'cause that's what I am. I'm a battery. If you're down, you can plug into me and get charged up.
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
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What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that “time shall be no more” means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future.
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Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.
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I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do.
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Practice random acts of kindness... and watch Mom!
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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
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When they had eventually calmed down a bit, and had gotten home, Mr. Duncan put the magic pebble in an iron safe. Some day they might want to use it, but really, for now, what more could they wish for? They all had all that they wanted.
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.
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My greatest weapon is mute prayer.
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When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.
