"It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing……" — Rumer Godden
"It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by."
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16 Quotes by Rumer Godden
Rumer Godden has 16 quotes on this site.
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A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
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When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.
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As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests…
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Memory is the only friend of grief.
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A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries,…
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If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that…
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The stitch of a book is its words.
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For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like…
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There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an…
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I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.
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A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn…
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I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
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I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's…
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of…
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no…
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We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are…
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
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If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but…
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My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh,…
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for…
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst…
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