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Great Quotes by Anna Quindlen
- The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all…
- Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor…
- I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible…
- There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing…
- Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you…
- The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea…
- Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them…
- His [O.J. Simpson's] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see the photographs of…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong