"All our lives are activity without meaning; we……" — Gregory Maguire
"All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy,"
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201 Quotes by Gregory Maguire
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Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes,…
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That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.
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...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
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The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of…
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I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
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Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her…
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Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way.
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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