Meg Wheatley Quotes
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
Quotes to Explore
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.
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I went to the opening of 'Sister Act,' and I had such a great time. I had no idea what it was about, and I had never seen the movies. But I heard the show went through some major last-minute craziness in previews, and man, opening night was really fun and really entertaining.
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We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.
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As image and apprehension are in an organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.
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Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting: They’re brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.
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I myself was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it
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Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.
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I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.
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Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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The most disappointing thing to me after 'Tusk' was the politics in the band. They said, 'We're not going to do that again.' I felt dead in the water from that. On 'Mirage,' I was treading water, saying, 'Okay, whatever,' and taking a passive role.
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When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn't choose where I was born or who to be or what people would call me.
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Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
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Let us learn to dream again. To learn to dream again is to have big plans. To learn to dream again is to readjust, to look to God.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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God's commandments are not given to limit or punish us.
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
