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Penelope Lively quote: "I have no idea where I am going, she thought, but I have begun."
I have no idea where I am going, she thought, but I have begun. Penelope Lively
I have never thought I could take it, not evenfor the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. But I come from along lineof womenwho put themselvesfirst. Sharon Olds
The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who. Victor Hugo
When hit with a genius idea, people tend to say, "Well, if I sat down in a chair and really thought about it, I could have had that genius idea, too." But they didn't--and even if they'd wanted to, it could never have happened. Doug Coupland
Taylor Swift quote: "Don’t worry. You may think you’ll never get over it. But you..."
Don’t worry. You may think you’ll never get over it. But you also thought it would last forever. Taylor Swift
There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. […] they say something to us, standing there not as objects but as remnants of thought, of consciousness, emblems of the solitude in which a man comes to make decisions about himself. Paul Auster
Rumi quote: "Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadowover..."
Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadowover the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. Rumi
Epictetus quote: "We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our..."
We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. Epictetus
Charlaine Harris quote: "I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more..."
I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more than enough calories on board. Charlaine Harris
I worried that Harold would someday get a new prescription for his glasses and he'd put them on one morning, look me up and down, and say, "Why, gosh, you aren't the girl I thought you were, are you? Amy Tan
What on earth did you want with an early Christian sarcophagus, Elliot?"To put myself in it, my dear fellow. It was of very good design, and I thought it would balance the font on the other side of the entrance, but those early Christians were stumpy little fellows and I shouldn't have fitted in. I wasn't going to lie there till the Last Trump with my knees doubled up to my chin like a foetus. Most uncomfortable. W. Somerset Maugham
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them."If one..."
Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them."If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am! J. R. R. Tolkien
Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said. Albert Camus
I have already thought it over,' said Rubashov. 'I reject your proposition. Logically, you may be right. But I have had enough of this kind of logic. I am tired and I don't want to play this game anymore. Be kind enough to have me taken back to my cell. Arthur Koestler
The obvious differences apart, Karl Marx was no more a reliable prophet than was the Reverend Jim Jones. Karl Marx was a genius, an uncannily resourceful manipulator of world history who shoved everything he knew, thought, and devised into a Ouija board from whose movements he decocted universal laws. He had his following, during the late phases of the Industrial Revolution. But he was discredited by historical experience longer ago than the Wizard of Oz: and still, great grown people sit... William F. Buckley, Jr.

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