Broads Quotes - Page 31

• Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Fiction, Select

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• What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization's war upon it.

  Stephanie Mills

  War, Civilization, Long

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• I swallowed the fear. It’s always there– fear– and if you don’t stay on top of it, you’ll drown. I swallowed again and stood tall, shoulders broad, arms loose. I was balanced, ready to move. My body said, “Yeah, you’re bigger and stronger, but if you touch this, I will hurt you.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, Moving, Stronger

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2006). “Prom”, p.144, Penguin

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• I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues.

  Etty Hillesum

  Sorrow, Share, Streams

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.308, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Sweet baby Jesus, Blue Eyes was... He was gorgeous in all the ways that made girls do stupid things. He was tall, a good head or two taller than me and broad at the shoulders, but tapered at the waist. An athlete's body - like a swimmer's. Wavy black hair toppled over his forehead, brushing matching eyebrows. Broad cheekbones and wide, expressive lips completed the package created for girls to drool over. And with those sapphire-colored eyes, holy moley...

  J. Lynn

  Girl, Sweet, Baby

  J. Lynn (2013). “Wait for You (Wait For You, Book 1)”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

  Roger Scruton

  Judgement, Style, Details

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• She clenched her fist in his T-shirt, put her other arm around those too-broad, too-real shoulders. When he tried to pull away, she held on tight. Kami felt the surrender in his mind a moment before he laid his face in the curve of her neck. The whole world was so real it hurt. Kami whispered into Jared's hair, "I'm always on your side.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Hurt, Real, Curves

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.74, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I stare at her chest. As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves, somehow reminding me of rain falling softly on a broad stretch of sea. I'm the lonely voyager standing on deck, and she's the sea. The sky is a blanket of gray, merging with the gray sea off on the horizon. It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky. Between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Rain, Moving

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• We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Kissing, Hands, Trying

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• And Derek was... what? A pair of dark eyes that hid more than they revealed and some broad shoulders and a mouth that could be cold and thin and then suddenly widen into a generous grin just when you thought such a thing was impossible.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Eye, Dark, Mouths

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• What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before the year is out? Yet Americans are generally given 'class' labels on the basis of their transient location in the income stream. If most Americans do not stay in the same broad income bracket for even a decade, their repeatedly changing 'class' makes class itself a nebulous concept. Yet the intelligentsia are habituated, if not addicted, to seeing the world in class terms.

  Thomas Sowell

  Men, Years, Class

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, Basic Books

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• We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Mcdonalds, Burgers, Salad

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• In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Memories, Two, Imagination

  "Touched with fire" by Angela Lambert, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2002.

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• If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.

  Adolf Hitler

  Sympathy, Stupid, Wish

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Volume II, 1926.

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• One of the things that I love about voiceover is that it's a situation where - because you're not encumbered by being seen - it's liberating. You're able to make broad choices that you would never make if you were on camera.

  Mark Hamill

  Choices, Cameras, Able

  "Mark Hamill Makes ‘Biggest Gamble of Career’ with ‘Sushi Girl’". Interview with David Onda, my.xfinity.com. December 6, 2012.

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• Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Paper, Endure, Anarchism

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• The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.

  Ben Macintyre

  Deception, Agents, Secrecy

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• The way to heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough for capering rousters, for jumping, skipping, dancing dames but that broad, beaten, pleasant road that leads to hell. The gate of heaven is too narrow for whole rounds, whole troops of dancers to march in together.

  William Prynne

  Dance, Men, Jumping

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• Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Future, Decision, Joy

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• Both rich and poor nations have a common stake in policies that put the globe on a sustainable development path. The conflict is less between poor and rich countries than between the broad interests of people and the narrow interests of extractive industries. We need to find our way towards some kind of global regime that reduces emissions of the greenhouse gases, but well-off nations need to transfer the technology to make this possible, rather than viewing this shift as one more opportunity for private industry to profit.

  Robert Kuttner

  Country, Technology, Opportunity

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• I'm very proud of the fact that Israel is the one country in a very broad radius that - in which Arabs have free and fair elections. That's sacrosanct. That will never change. I wasn't trying to suppress a vote. I was trying to get something to counter a foreign-funded effort to get votes that are intended to topple my party. And I was calling on our voters to come out.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, Party, Israel

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Civilization, Pyramids

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Sky, Pyramids

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.15

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• Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

  Francis Scott Key

  Stars, Twilight, Home

  "The Star-Spangled Banner" (song) st. 1 (1814)

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• A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

  John Milton

  Paradise, Fool, Limbo

  John Milton (1853). “The Paradise lost”, p.137

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