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Mark Rothko quote: "It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of..."
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again. Mark Rothko
Overborrowing or overlending? Lenders encourage indebtedness because it is profitable. Developing country governments are sometimes even pressured to overborrow ... Even without corruption, it is easy to be influenced by Western businessmen and financiers ... Countries that aren't sure that borrowing is worth the rist are told how important it is to establis a credit rating: borrow even if you really don't need the money. Joseph Stiglitz
In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had- A Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up it's feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves. Barbara Kingsolver
Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves. C. S. Lewis
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and..."
To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. Barbara Kingsolver
And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work. Rumi
The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing, there’s arrogance at its core. It presumes you should be successful at twenty-six, when really it takes most writers much longer to get there. Cheryl Strayed
I suppose we'll never know what really happened in that room, though he did tell police, "I did it because I'm a dirty dog." This is not a very convincing alibi. He may as well have said, "I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain't one. Chuck Klosterman
A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Agatha Christie
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. Jane Austen
I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, 'Right, lads! Another twenty like that, plus some lintels and maybe a... Bill Bryson
I believe half of a writer’s job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things, information about another world that entertains you and informs you. Caleb Carr
You can't be real," Delilah murmurs. "Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it? Jodi Picoult
Kim Kardashian quote: "If you can fix a problem with money, it's not really a problem."
If you can fix a problem with money, it's not really a problem. Kim Kardashian
What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to. Clifford Geertz

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