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Stills Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive…
- He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.
- Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
- Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious…
- Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo,…
- Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still…
- He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your…
- But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I…
- For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like…
- But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things…
- Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just…
- The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings,…
- Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things…
- But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your…
- You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to…
- Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We…
- Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing…
More Stills Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- I still don't get golf. — Lance Armstrong
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
- People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I… — Tom Arnold
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden