Gertrude Atherton Quotes

The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.

Gertrude Atherton

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• I've always imagined myself doing well, whatever I did.

  

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• I understand that in some families both parents have to work, so the kids are home alone eating more processed foods. But if the kids know how to make oatmeal or eggs in the morning or pasta or a lentil soup at night - we're giving them real survival tools.

  

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• Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.

  

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• Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

  

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• People say I'm a nice girl saying terrible things. I tend to say the opposite of what I think. You hope that the absolute power of that transcends, and reaches the audience.

  

  Sarah Silverman
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• There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.

  

  Cate Blanchett
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• Life is not perfect, individuals will always be flawed, but empathy – the sheer inability to see those around them as anything other than people too – conquers all, in the end.

  

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• Not only must we follow the golden thread towards spiritual freedom, but we must also unravel the garden-variety twine that is wrapped tightly around our hearts and minds.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
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• And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement.

  

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• I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes.

  

  Nelly
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• Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must.

  

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• I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.

  

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• Through itself the soul arrives at all harmony that is perceptible in otherness-just as through what is internal the soul arrives at what is external.

  

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• The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed themselves with their blood... In all, 220,000 men perished in Cyrene and 240,000 in Cyprus, and for this reason no Jew may set foot in Cyprus today.

  

  Cassius Dio
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• I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Happy
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• We've got roughly four to six million people right now who are experiencing hurricane or tropical storm-force winds.

  

  Craig Fugate
  • People
  • Millions
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• The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Hurricane
  • Warning
  • Blows