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Sometimes Quotes by Yann Martel
- A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless…
- A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
- Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who…
- Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than…
- It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
- All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and…
- Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard…
- The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
- Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love.…
More Sometimes Quotes
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I… — Tom Arnold
- It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk… — Marcel Achard
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just… — Dave Attell
- The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. — Chinua Achebe
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen
- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with… — Richard Bach