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Doings Quotes (page 717)

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Graham Greene quote: "What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the..."
What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years? Graham Greene
And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged. Douglas Adams
Swami Vivekananda quote: "Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in,..."
Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others. Swami Vivekananda
Please, sit down," Sharon said with another hair toss. I made a mental note to practice doing that in a mirror the next time I saw one. it seemed a useful skill, right up there with roundhouse kicks. James Patterson
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself. Oscar Wilde
I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand. C. S. Lewis
THE NOTE said the first clue was "in the big one." I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I saw no pattern. Not such a surprise, since I was missing the puzzle chromosome and couldn't do puzzles designed for nine-year-olds. Janet Evanovich
If I should sell my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. Henry David Thoreau
Jean Cocteau quote: "I am burning myself up and will always do so."
I am burning myself up and will always do so. Jean Cocteau
Jane Seymour quote: "It's really not a question of how long you have on this earth;..."
It's really not a question of how long you have on this earth; it's about what you do with it. Jane Seymour
I wish that my childhood would have been different. I do not, however, regret what happened. This does not mean tht I would gladly go through it again. But mythologies of all times and all places tell us that those who enter the abyss and survive can bring back important lessons. I have no need to merely imagine the unimaginable. And I will no longer forget. I have learned that whether I choose to feel or not, pain exists, and whether we choose to acknowledge them or not, atrocities continue.... Derrick Jensen
Amy Tan quote: "Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling..."
Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling. Amy Tan
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis. Pope John Paul II
Henry David Thoreau quote: "I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a..."
I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are? Henry David Thoreau

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