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Inspired Quotes — page 47 of 313
“I grew up watching "That's So Raven" and "Lizzie McGuire," and I said to myself that I could do that one day, and here I am. This is a dream come true and I am just ecstatic to be here living out my childhood dreams.”
“I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.”
“His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.”
“It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.”
“Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.”
“What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?...the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow.”
“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.”
“Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.”
“Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.”
“All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.”
“Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.”
“I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.”
“I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.”
“Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.”
“Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua.”
“I learned to love despair.”
“If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth, on the river ruined in its own duration: I know nothing save things the birds have lost, the sea I left behind, or my sister crying. Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock with day? Why the dark night swilling round in our mouths? And why the dead?”
“It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen”
“The world's forests need to be seen for what they are - giant global utilities, providing essential public services to humanity on a vast scale. They store carbon, which is lost to the atmosphere when they burn, increasing global warming. The life they support cleans the atmosphere of pollutants and feeds it with moisture. They act as a natural thermostat, helping to regulate our climate and sustain the lives of 1.4 billion of the poorest people on this Earth.”