"There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But……" — Elizabeth Wein
"There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will"
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39 Quotes by Elizabeth Wein
Elizabeth Wein has 39 quotes on this site.
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But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying…
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I felt like one who wants to trap and cage a little bird, and after years of waiting and luring…
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One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.
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It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.
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But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies.…
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It's impossible to stall a Lizzie.
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Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my…
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He just put his hand through the bulkhead, exactly as she'd done, and squeezed my shoulder. He has very strong…
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Please come back soon. The window is always open.
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How did you ever get here, Maddie Brodatt?" "'Second to the right, and then straight on till morning,'" she answered…
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If you show this devious little liar one atom's worth of compassion I will have you shot.
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Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever;…
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Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that…
— Neil Armstrong
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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history,…
— Charles Babbage
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn…
— Richard Bach
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My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it.
— Eric Bana
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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and…
— Dennis Banks
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Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of…
— Roseanne Barr
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them,…
— Karl Barth
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast…
— Joseph Addison
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
— John Berger
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
— John Berger
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