Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment; that is not the Islamic way. ~Naguib Mahfouz
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life. ~Eva Mendes
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations. ~Sue Kelly
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To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance. ~Michelle Wie
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
#quotes #ray-davies #time

Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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If you chase two rabbits, you catch none. ~Confucius
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