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Diane Ackerman quote: "It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a..."
It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between. Diane Ackerman
Pat Conroy quote: "I never once approached greatness, but toward the end of my..."
I never once approached greatness, but toward the end of my career, I was always in the game. Pat Conroy
Craig Ferguson quote: "Its like a sort of internet Ren Fair. Its like Dungeons &..."
Its like a sort of internet Ren Fair. Its like Dungeons & Dragons but for cool people who have got friends. Craig Ferguson
At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there. John Piper
Augusto Roa Bastos quote: "It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to..."
It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition. Augusto Roa Bastos
From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events. Napoleon Bonaparte
Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck. Ian Fleming
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the more time passes, the harder it gets...My father said that the natural world gave us explanations to compensate for the meanings we could not grasp. The slant of the cold sunlight on a winter pine, the music of water, an oar cutting the lake and the flight of birds, the mountains' nobility , the silence of the silence. We are given life but must accept that it is... Salman Rushdie
My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for. Chelsea Handler
I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My love and I, we looked amazed Upon the gory mystery. "Lie down, lie down!" the people cried. "The great machine is history!" My love and I, we ran away, The engine did not find us. We ran up to a mountain top, Left history far behind us. Perhaps we should have stayed and died, But somehow we don't think so. We went to see where history'd been, And my, the dead did stink so. Kurt Vonnegut
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Think of love as a state of grace; not the means to anything..."
Think of love as a state of grace; not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Do you feel, yet, that you belong to this terrestrial scheme again, Mr. Darnay?"I am frightfully confused regarding time and place, but I am so far mended as to feel that."It must be an immense satisfaction!"He said it bitterly, and filled up his glass again: which was a large one."As to me, the greatest desire I have is to forget that I belong to it. It has no good in it for me--except wine like this--nor I for it. So we are not much alike in that particular. Indeed, I begin to think we are... Charles Dickens
Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them ... but you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy. Aldous Huxley
No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation. Georgette Heyer
There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. Victor Hugo

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