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Maya Angelou Quotes

Maya Angelou quote: "I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it...."

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

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Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are. Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words. Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you. Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart Rabindranath Tagore
Neil Gaiman quote: "They all do the same things. They may think their sins are..."
They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive. Neil Gaiman
He was irritable with Orr, who had found two crab apples somewhere and walked with them in his cheeks until Yossarian spied them there and made him take them out. Then Orr found two horse chestnuts somewhere and slipped those in until Yossarian detected them and snapped at him again to take the crab apples out of his mouth. Orr grinned and replied that they were not crab apples but horse chestnuts and that they were not in his mouth but in his hands, but Yossarian was not able to understand a... Joseph Heller
Sylvia Plath quote: "I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and..."
I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives. Sylvia Plath
Andres Segovia quote: "I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars."
I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars. Andres Segovia
Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. Judith Butler
Terry Prachett quote: "Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was..."
Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen. Terry Prachett
We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached. Johannes Stark
All organisation is and must be grounded on the idea of exclusion and prohibition just as two objects cannot occupy the same space Arthur Miller
All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it. James Lovelock
The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree.(from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire') Gerard Manley Hopkins
Well, if I asked people whether they believed in life, they'd never understand what I meant. It's a bad question. It can mean so much that it really means nothing. So I ask them if they believe in God. And if they say they do -- then, I know they don't believe in life. Because, you see, God -- whatever anyone chooses to call God -- is one's highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life... Ayn Rand
Norman Maclean quote: "The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case..."
The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience. Norman Maclean
My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. Gus Van Sant
Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act. Rita Mae Brown