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Robert Frost quote: "How many things have to happen to you before something occurs..."
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you? Robert Frost
Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion. John Piper
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing. William S. Burroughs
It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad. Rita Mae Brown
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give..."
Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break. Chuck Palahniuk
His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted. J. R. R. Tolkien
[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes. Mark Helprin
Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all. Oscar Wilde
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known. Frank Herbert
The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. Gaylord Nelson
It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn’t genius, but something far more common. Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work to go at, soul and body, and finally came to the wise conclusion that everyone who loved music was not a composer. Louisa May Alcott
Abdul Kalam quote: "Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something..."
Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep. Abdul Kalam
It is illegal to yell “fire” in a crowded theater. If there is a fire, please yell something else instead, like “Flames!” or “Smoke maker!” or “Bad hot! Demetri Martin
Willa Cather quote: "That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and..."
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. Willa Cather
Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them. Katherine Dunn

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