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Christina Aguilera quote: "I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do,..."
I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you. Christina Aguilera
Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon. John Piper
Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children. Rainer Maria Rilke
The rich and powerful always seem to perfer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake Laurell K. Hamilton
Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck. Abdul Kalam
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. Barbara Kingsolver
Up and down," Meera would sigh sometimes as they walked, "then down and up. Then up and down again. I hate these stupid mountains of yours, Prince Bran."Yesterday you said you loved them."Oh, I do. My lord father told me about mountains, but I never saw one till now. I love them more than I can say."Bran made a face at her. "But you just said you hated them."Why can't it be both?" Meera reached up to pinch his nose."Because they're different," he insisted. "Like night and day, or ice and... George R. R. Martin
Richard P. Feynman quote: "All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but..."
All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't. Richard P. Feynman
Margaret Mitchell quote: "Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as..."
Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further. Margaret Mitchell
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's..."
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning. George Bernard Shaw
Look, just because I'm an angry, repressed, Irish-Catholic feminist doesn't mean I hate everything. I only hate youth, beauty, the human body, nature, technological change, popular culture, and democracy. Oh, and I forgot to mention sex. And sports. And Andy Warhol. But other than that, I'm cool with whatever the kids are into. Really! Mary Gordon
I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither.... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger. Toni Morrison
He liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time. Those memories whose only function is to leave just a trace in memory. Chris Marker
She had always thought that if only people could communicate mind-to-mind, eliminating the ambiguities of language, then understanding would be perfect and there'd be no more needless conflicts. Instead she had discovered that rather than magnifying differences between people, language might just as easily soften them, minimize them, smooth things over so that people could get along even though they really didn't understand each other. The illusion of comprehension allowed people to think... Orson Scott Card
Remember when only a few people had mobile phones. Generally regarded as an object of derision, you would occasionally see business types clutching those ridiculous grey bricks to their faces and mutter to yourself 'what a prick.' Nowadays, an eyebrow hardly even flutters when we see a ten-year-old child happily texting away. You probably wouldn't notice anyway; you'd be too busy downloading an app that could definitively pinpoint who it was that had just farted in your tube carriage. Simon Pegg

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