"Perhaps this was the secret to being at……" — Amy Waldman

Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but… - Amy Waldman

"Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you."

— Amy Waldman

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33 Quotes by Amy Waldman

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Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.
In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.
Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn…
The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes
In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like…
Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.
In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it…
I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become…
My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and…

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help… — Rodney Atkins
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to… — Chinua Achebe
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from… — John James Audubon
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by… — Saint Augustine
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if… — Saint Augustine
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — Jane Austen
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not… — Edward Bach
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have… — Richard Bach

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