Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes
Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
Quotes to Explore
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Life is like an analogy.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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Prison kills your spirit, straight up. It kills your spirit. There is no creativity, there's none of that.
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Once a piece of writing gets to a moment where it's not going to get much better than it already is, marinate it. If you still like the piece, send it out and see what others think. If not, it's time to put it away and forget about it for a while.
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Feeling better is temporary. Transformation is forever.
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As the Ambassador for WWF Earth Hour, I still vividly remember that there were only 80 buildings in China that participated the Earth Hour in its first year. Six years later, there were 170 cities and thousands of buildings that participated. We are still growing strong. I am encouraged by the accomplishments we have made together and they make me proud and more determined than ever.
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Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
