"The real problem is, people think life is……" — Charles de Lint
"The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel."
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Charles de Lint
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189 Quotes by Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint has 189 quotes on this site.
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An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space…
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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.
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The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.
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The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a…
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What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know…
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One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
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Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
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There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.
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More Ladder Quotes
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one of 362 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
— Saint Augustine
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I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder,…
— George H. W. Bush
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I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate…
— Herman Cain
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You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
— Andrew Carnegie
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I have never watched property programmes. I watch Property Ladder, because I feel it's very rude for a director to…
— Sarah Beeny
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The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and…
— Unknown Author
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By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his…
— Sun Tzu
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Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a…
— Andrew Carnegie
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One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly,…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money…
— Maimonides
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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