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Moving Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time…
- Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other…
- If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much…
- When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters,…
- When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away.…
- All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their…
- Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.
- His mouth is on me, his hands, I can't wait and he's moving, already, love, it's been so long, I'm alive in my skin, again,…
- If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s…
More Moving Quotes
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- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are… — Robert Asprin
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I… — David Attenborough
- I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. — David Attenborough
- We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important.… — David Attenborough
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections. — Diane Ackerman
- I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going… — David Axelrod