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One Quotes by Robin Hobb
- Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage…
- Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
- One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
- That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity.…
- Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is…
- One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.
- The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
- For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
- ...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.
- Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are…
- Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.
- I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the…
- the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
- This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may…
- One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
- Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it.…
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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