Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Quotes to Explore
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.
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Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.
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Holding her gaze, he closed the final distance between them and went down to his knees, that beautiful bruised face looking up at her.
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I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.
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I am always learning.
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.
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I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.
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Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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He couldn't eat at a restaurant without people recognizing him. He was just a great guy, an enjoyable, pleasant man who donated himself to causes in any way he could. He has endeared himself to a whole generation of Baby Boomers. He was a dear friend of mine, a very convivial man, interested in everybody.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
