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Into Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with.
- To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly…
- People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it,…
- That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the…
- I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an…
- Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage…
- That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And then sometimes those…
- There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is…
- I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong