Corners Quotes - Page 20

• Amusement touched the corner of his lips. "Animals love me." "Oh, I'm sure they do," Scarlet said, beaming with fake encouragement. She shut the door before muttering, "What farm animals don't love a wolf?

  Marissa Meyer

  Encouragement, Animal, Doors

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• Why?” He tilted his head. “That’s a tricky one. Could it be your serenity, your quiet manner, your flawless fashion sense?” It did his heart good to see her quick, amused grin. “No, I must be thinking of someone else. It must be your courage, your absolute dedication to balancing scales, that restless mind, and that sweet corner of your heart that pushes you to care so much about so many.” “That’s not me.” “Oh, but it is you, darling Eve.

  Nora Roberts

  Fashion, Sweet, Heart

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• All the talk in the world won't undo what we are. They put us in a corner we could never get out of on our own, and they're not in a rush to pull us out.

  Kiera Cass

  World

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• And you don't ever have to worry about what I feel. The way I feel about you won't change. You can do whatever you like to me. You could turn this town to dust, burn the woods until they were cinders, you could cut out my heart. It wouldn't matter. It would not change a thing." "What if I ate a baby?" Jared's mouth curved up at the corners, slow and not cruel at all. "I'm sure you'd have a good reason," he said.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Baby, Heart, Cutting

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold (The Lynburn Legacy Book 2)”, p.272, Random House Books for Young Readers

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  Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first 'no.' And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

  Cher

  Inspirational, Positive, Women

  Interview with Christina Lessa, flattmag.com.

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• Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can. do big things.

  Herbert Butterfield

  Time, Attitude, Thinking

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• What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

  James Dyson

  Inspirational, Running, Hurt

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• Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb.

  Henry Wood

  Inspirational, Happiness, Heart

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• There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Light, Media

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.274, Univ of California Press

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• Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

  William Faulkner

  Courage, Hurt, Men

  William Faulkner (2011). “Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner”, p.364, Vintage

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• When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Dance, Giving, Devil

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• Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

  August Wilson

  Death, Fastballs

  August Wilson, Larry Fishburne, Samuel G Freedman, Tony Kushner, Romulus Linney (2007). “August Wilson Century Cycle”

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• Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

  Carter Burwell

  Death, Giving, Our Society

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• The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Education, Fear, Lying

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.7, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don't quit!

  Joyce Meyer

  Encouraging, May, Quitting

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• The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Family, Attitude, Children

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966".

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• There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!

  Gaston Bachelard

  Happiness, Children, Games

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• There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Ideas, Giving

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• For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Humility, Political

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• There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

  Aristotle

  Funny, Humor, Humility

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• I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Jealousy, Vapour

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 260

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• Searching for money, what are you really searching? You are searching power, you are searching strength. Searching for prestige, political authority, what are you searching? You are searching power, strength - and strength is all the time available just by the corner. You are searching in wrong places.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Political, Prestige

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• The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

  Theodore White

  Lying, Rain, Night

  1969 In the New York Times, 5 Jan.

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• We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

  Bill Nye

  Motivational, Middle Of Nowhere, Specks

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