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Doings Quotes (page 528)

Barbara Kingsolver quote: "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn..."
I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you. Barbara Kingsolver
Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The boy Paco had never known about any of this nor about what all these people would be doing on the next day and on other days to come. He had no idea how they really lived nor how they ended. He did not even realize they ended. Ernest Hemingway
Victor Hugo quote: "We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who..."
We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all. Victor Hugo
[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil. Martin Luther King jr.
All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise. William Dean Howells
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "I don't do doomed."
I don't do doomed. Laurell K. Hamilton
Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but from those of your parents' generation and from your children's generation too. They'll never understand you and they'll be shocked no matter what you do. But your grandparents would probably be proud of you and say: 'Theres a chip off the old block,' and your grandchildren will sigh enviously and say: 'What an old rip Grandma must have been!' and they'll try to be like you. Margaret Mitchell
Elizabeth Cady Stanton quote: "I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I..."
I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Don’ you worry, Harry. You’ll learn fast enough. Everyone starts at the beginning at Hogwarts, you’ll be just fine. Just be yerself. I know it’s hard. Yeh’ve been singled out, an’ that’s always hard. But yeh’ll have a great time at Hogwarts — I did — still do, ’smatter of fact. J. K. Rowling
What can you ever really know of other people's souls? of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him. C. S. Lewis
Neil Gaiman quote: "You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to..."
You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself. Neil Gaiman
The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is? not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself. George MacDonald
(Marie)...It's not like we're planning a rebellion. We're just putting food in our cupboards. If eating is rebellious, then I guess we're the biggest rebels out there. Indians are just plain hungry. Not for power. Not for money. For food, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner..."(Dr. Mather) "There you go again, creating an antagonisitc situation. Don't you understand what I'm trying to teach? I'm trying to present a positive portrait of Indian peoples, of your people. Of you. I simply cannot do... Sherman Alexie
Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work. Karl Marx

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