"I think of love as a force of……" — Jeanette Winterson
"I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming,as drought-making as it is life-giving."
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419 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson has 419 quotes on this site.
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To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement.
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Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there…
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After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.
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...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great…
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
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I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
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There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories…
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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
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You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
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The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly,…
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Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we…
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It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of…
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More Drought Quotes
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Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
— Margaret Atwood
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Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin,…
— Will Carleton
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Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
— Dwight Morrow
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Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn…
— Susan Hill
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There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it…
— Matthew Fontaine Maury
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At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place,…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We…
— Barack Obama
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For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true…
— Barack Obama
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You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya…
— Nicholas Stern
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Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest…
— Bill McKibben
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Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for…
— Grigory Zinoviev
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