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- A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.
- Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself.
- There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.
- There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.
- What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely....Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much…
- Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. So that might be creativity, family, invention, adventure, faith, service, it…
- I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The…
- I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself,…
- There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female…
- Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' which blew the top of my head straight off. I've…
- The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.
- I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a…
- The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.
- Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said,…
- The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or…
- To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful…
- There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you…
- When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with…
- I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know that…
- In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of…
- I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to…
- The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.
- I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about…
- I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)
- But I don't know how much more socializing I can do, Felipe. I only have the one dress. People will start to notice that I'm…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle