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Saying Quotes (page 350)

You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your big dream regardless of what anyone says. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture and even you can't see it all. Oprah Winfrey
The Pope replied, “of what should we not be afraid? We should not fear the truth about ourselves.” He spoke of how Saint Peter himself, the rock on which Christ had built his church, had told Christ to leave him, “for I am a sinful man.” Peter was a sinful man. We all are, including popes. We are imperfect and “our hearts are anxious.” But we cannot and should not let the fact of our unworthiness and flaws and failures build that wall with a kind of inverted pride that says, Oh, I’m so... Peggy Noonan
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. Mark Twain
I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy. Haruki Murakami
Michael Ondaatje quote: "Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you..."
Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?"I didn't say anything. Michael Ondaatje
Ryszard Kapuscinski quote: "If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say..."
If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over. Ryszard Kapuscinski
Stephen Colbert quote: "Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to..."
Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once! Stephen Colbert
Ken Kesey quote: "But I tried though," he says. "Goddammit, I sure as hell did..."
But I tried though," he says. "Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I? Ken Kesey
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. Sojourner Truth
Here is a relationship boosterthat is guaranteed towork: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupidmake your eyes light up as if youjust heard somethingbrilliant. Rumi
When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying... Louisa May Alcott
at last you, will say(maybe without speaking)(there are mountains inside your skullgarden and chaos, oceanand hurricane; certaincorners of rooms, portraitsof great-grandmothers, curtainsof a particular shade; your deserts; your privatedinosaurs; the firstwoman)all i need to know: tell meeverythingjust as it wasfrom the beginning. Margaret Atwood
I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged. Marguerite Duras
I imagined there must be hundreds and thousands and millions of people quiet in the dark out there, waiting with baited breath for me, up on that stage and bathed in colored lights, to say something. I opened my mouth and—hooray—they were going to listen. Elaine Dundy
I hate diversity workshops. “Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable. Michelle Obama

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