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Tracy Kidder quote: "That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane,..."
That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people. Tracy Kidder
Diana Wynne Jones quote: "You have no right to make jigsaws of people."
You have no right to make jigsaws of people. Diana Wynne Jones
That is the idea - that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the christian religion. It seems to me that the people who have held to it have been for the most part extremely wicked. You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. Bertrand Russell
You know that eye-to-eye recognition, when two people look deeply into each other's pupils, and burrow to the soul? It usually comes before love. I mean the clear, deep, milk-eyed recognition expressed by the poet Donne. Their eyebeams twisted and did thread their eyes upon a double string. My father recognized that the Professor was a Troll, and the Professor recognized my father's recognition. Both of them knew that the Professor had eaten his wife. - The Troll T. H. White
I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first. Sue Grafton
Meg Cabot quote: "You’re in Europe. You’re young. Young people have been going..."
You’re in Europe. You’re young. Young people have been going to Europe on a shoestring for a hundred years. Meg Cabot
Your going to come across people in your life that say all the right things at the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. it's actions, not words, that matter. Nicholas Sparks
Most people are like a falling leaf as it twists and turns its way through the air, lurches and tumbles to the ground. Others, though? a very few? are like stars set on a fixed course; no wind can reach them, and they carry their law and their path within them. Herman Hesse
They're all cruel. The world i come from, the world you come from, and this one too. Maybe people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden - but it's there all the same. Cornelia Funke
Roughly speaking, there are three kinds of people in the world…the division follows lines of real psychological cleavage. I do not offer it lightly. It has been the fruit of more than eighteen minutes of earnest reflection and research. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farmland the labyrinths that people have imposed between them sometime in the past. I cherish the green enclaves accidentally left behind. E. O. Wilson
Shug: More than anything God love admiration. Celie: You saying God is vain? Shug: No, not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off when you walk by the colour purple in a field and don't notice it. Celie: You saying it just wanna be loved like it say in the bible? Shug: Yeah, Celie. Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved. Look at them trees. Notice how the trees do everything people do to get attention... except walk? [they... Alice Walker
This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be. Anne Lamott
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap Abraham Lincoln
It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people. Orhan Pamuk

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