Yann Martel Quotes
My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
Yann Martel
Quotes to Explore
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Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
J. D. Vance
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.
Faith Hill
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
Igor Stravinsky
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Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
Candice Bergen
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If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!
Bill Rancic
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True instruction is this: -to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole. (26).
Epictetus
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Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.
Hermann Hesse
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I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
Martin Luther
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
Yann Martel
