Charles de Lint Quotes
Our time’s the most precious thing we’ve got to offer folks, and the worst thing a body can do is to take it away from us.
Charles de Lint
Quotes to Explore
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
Barack Obama
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
I. M. Pei
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
J. Michael Straczynski
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
Nathan Lane
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Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
Vincent Bugliosi
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
Dana Torres
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How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure.
Dana Brunetti
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
Maisie Williams
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
Oliver Stone
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
Sally Pearson
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'We should let love be uppermost in our hearts because all our doings without love are nothing.'
T. B. Joshua
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
Barry White
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I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.
Bruce Feiler
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On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.
Confucius
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Our time’s the most precious thing we’ve got to offer folks, and the worst thing a body can do is to take it away from us.
Charles de Lint
