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M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. He was obliged to undergo it although he was a bishop, and because he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name was connected were rumors only,—noise, sayings, words; less than words— palabres, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. Victor Hugo
He hadn't let what he looked like run his life one way or the other, any more than he'd let the Combine mill him into fitting where they wanted him to fit. Ken Kesey
I stand in the sacred human presence. As I do now, so should you stand some day. I pray to your presence that this be so. Let the future remain uncertain for that is the canvas to receive our desires. Thus the human condition faces its perpetual tabula rasa. We possess no more than this moment where we dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence we share and create. Frank Herbert
Terry Goodkind quote: "When yo hold your nose so high in the air, you can't see where..."
When yo hold your nose so high in the air, you can't see where you are going. Terry Goodkind
He'd done as he'd pleased and even had often enjoyed long runs of luck where he hadn't been caught. But the luckiest moment of his life had been being caught. Nora Roberts
Thomas Paine quote: "An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers..."
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."-Thomas Paine Thomas Paine
Soon this mass of ideas became harmonized, took life, seemed, as it were, to become a living individual and moved in the midst of those domains of fancy, where the soul loves to give full rein to its wild creations. Honore de Balzac
Audrey Hepburn quote: "No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself"
No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself Audrey Hepburn
Let not to get a living be thy trade, but thy sport. Enjoy the land, but own it not. Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs. Henry David Thoreau
The gentlest thing in the worldovercomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substanceenters where there is no space. This shows the value of non-action. Teaching without words, performing without actions: that is the Master's way. Lao Tzu
The dirty Arab children sold peanuts from the top of the basket and hashish from the bottom. They spoke a masterful unintimidated French in guttural gasps, coming from a land where it was regarded neither as the most beautiful language, as in America, nor the only one, as in France. William Gaddis
Not under foreign skiesNor under foreign wings protected -I shared all this with my own peopleThere, where misfortune had abandoned us. Anna Akhmatova
Satan hath power to assume a pleasing form. Them big blue eyes. Knew more ways to turn a man's head than the devil's grandmother. I dont know where they learn it at. Hell, she wasnt but seventeen. Cormac McCarthy
You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive. Alice Walker
See, now that's your problem. You're wishin' too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be. Elizabeth Gilbert

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