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Alice Hoffman quote: "At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean...."
At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea. Alice Hoffman
I've been left for someone...all those things...It was sometimes a surprise, and sometimes you saw t coming. The most painful was when I kept trying to get someone back. But we all make dumb mistakes. George Clooney
Dale Carnegie quote: "Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like..."
Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you. Dale Carnegie
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from..."
You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying Georg C. Lichtenberg
... the very last thing I want to do is to unsettle in the mind of any Christian, whatever his denomination, the concepts -- for him traditional -- by which he finds it profitable to represent to himself what is happening when he receives the bread and wine. I could wish that no definitions had ever been felt to be necessary; and, still more, that none had been allowed to make divisions between churches. C. S. Lewis
Victor Hugo quote: "by making himself a priest made himself a demon."
by making himself a priest made himself a demon. Victor Hugo
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "That is my principle objection to life, I think. It is too..."
That is my principle objection to life, I think. It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. Kurt Vonnegut
Samuel Beckett quote: "When are they going to stop making me mean more than I say?"
When are they going to stop making me mean more than I say? Samuel Beckett
My favourite prank in heavy metalwork was to get a penny and spend three or four minutes making it really hot with a blowtorch, and then leave it on Mr Lane’s desk, so that he’d see it and pick it up out of curiosity. First you’d hear: ‘Waaaaahhhhhh!’ Then: ‘Osbourne, you little bastard!’ Heh-heh-heh. The old hot-penny trick. Priceless, man. Ozzy Osbourne
The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing. Thomas Merton
Thomas Hardy quote: "So many people make a name nowadays, that it is more..."
So many people make a name nowadays, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity. Thomas Hardy
Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he’ll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison. Neal Stephenson
Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into their design somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse. Neil Gaiman
I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls. James Lee Burke
I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first. Harriet Beecher Stowe

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