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Over Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise…
- Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it…
- When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years; there…
- The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic…
- When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the…
- If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity,…
- Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we…
- The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists…
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- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the… — Frederick Lenz
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius