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And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the… — Penelope Lively
All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit… — Penelope Lively
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in… — John Bunyan
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who… — Catherynne M. Valente
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in… — Sitting Bull
Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount… — Julia Child
It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a… — M.F.K. Fisher
The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same… — Lorrie Moore
I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and… — Amy Hempel
You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle for a place… — Tobias Wolff
The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that… — Tobias Wolff
There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat… — Joy Williams
Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling,… — Judith Butler
I do not deny certain kinds of biological differences. But I always ask under what conditions, under what discursive and institutional conditions, do certain biological… — Judith Butler
In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as… — Jack Kornfield
Once you run for office, you're in it - sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you… — John F. Kennedy Jr.
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and… — Gaston Bachelard
The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he… — Francis Hutcheson
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a… — Thomas Merton
Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more… — Thomas Merton
I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate… — Richard Wilbur
Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are… — Rudolf Steiner
Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe... Anthroposophists are those who experience,… — Rudolf Steiner
There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony. — Lily Allen
We need a new way of doing business to get out of the present crisis ... Absolute greed has come close to bankrupting the world.… — Richard Branson

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