Mines Quotes - Page 5

• Crafting, or 'making things,' has always been a delightful pastime of mine because it requires putting common elements together in order to achieve a lovely something that nobody needs.

  Amy Sedaris

  Order, Lovely, Together

  "Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People". Book by Amy Sedaris, November 2, 2010.

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• I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Roles, Knows

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• the process of a book's coming to life is not fully complete until your imagination meets mine on the page. The words evoke pictures and something altogether new is created, something different from the limits of my own skills and imagination. Something that is a marriage between your heart, mind, and body - and mine.

  Rebecca Wells

  Book, Heart, Skills

  Rebecca Wells (2009). “Little Altars Everywhere: Novel, A”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• one life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than that. Ah! I am very cowardly, and under the blow of such a terror I am ready to believe in priests.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Believe, Blow, Life And Death

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• Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Heart, Thrones, Royal

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1875). “Little pillows; or, Good-night thoughts for the little ones”, p.43

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• Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye
  Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky;
  The May-thorn greening in the nook;
  The minnows sporting in the brook;
  The bleat of flocks; the breath of flowers;
  The song of birds amid the bowers;
  The crystal of the azure seas;
  The music of the southern breeze;
  And, over all, the blessed sun,
  Telling of halcyon days begun.

  David Macbeth Moir

  Summer, Song, Flower

  David Macbeth Moir (1852). “The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir”, p.149

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• Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Cheer, Dark, Hands

  Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.92

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• Therefore if mine enemy hunger, let me feed him; if he thirst, let me give him drink. Now in order to do this, (1) We must see good in that, in which other men can see none. (2) We must pass by those injuries that other men would revenge. (3) We must show we have grace, and that we are made to bear what other men are not acquainted with. (4) Many of our graces are kept alive, by those very things that are the death of other men's souls.... The devil, (they say) is good when he is pleased; but Christ and His saints, when displeased.

  John Bunyan

  Revenge, Men, Order

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• It is a rule of mine never to ask unsolicited questions of people over twenty-one. I am only giving them the option of lying if they choose to. They would tell me the truth without my asking if they wanted me to know. To me that's fair enough.

  Dorothy West

  Lying, People, Giving

  Dorothy West (1996). “The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences”, Anchor

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• Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Life, Book, Black

  Carolina Maria De Jesus (1990). “Beyond All Pity”

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• Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?

  Joanne Greenberg

  Money, Real, Believe

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• We are the canaries in the mine. If we go, the last ecosystems go. So does the wisdom of how to sustain resources, live in balance with nature, and create communities based on cooperation, not competition. I think the rest of the world is searching for these values. I know we're here to share them. But we can only share them if we're here.

  Rebecca Adamson

  Thinking, Ecosystems, Community

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• a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.

  Cathleen Schine

  Mean, Gone, Letters

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• There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.

  James A. Baldwin

  Children, Men, Artist

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• If you're feeling alone, and your weariness has grown, look up above, and thank God for His love. There's nothing you can do, to change His love for you; hold on friend, it's not the end. Something beautiful will come, the clouds will part for the sun, the skies will break for the Son, and the Father will say 'Well done.' But until then, until then, you're not alone. He can make bread from stone. Hold on to Him, and He'll hold on to you. Take one day at a time, pray for faith and be kind, and when forgetful becomes your mind, remember what He said, 'You are mine.'

  Nick Vujicic

  Beautiful, Father, Son

  FaceBook post by Nick Vujicic from Jun 20, 2013

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• Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.

  Robert Orben

  Lasts, Economy, Quarters

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• It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine.

  Paul Gruchow

  Running, Race, Rats

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• We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.

  David J. C. MacKay

  Wind, Feet, Nuclear

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• Comic books are a big passion of mine.

  Taran Killam

  Book, Passion, Comic

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• I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, People, Bass

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family.

  Nadya Suleman

  Dream, Large Family, Huge

  "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.

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• If most people wanted to be incognito, they put on a fake beard or mustache. If I wanted to I'd just shave mine off.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  People, Fake, Mustache

  "We Interviewed Jeff Foxworthy | Show at Redfest". Do512 Interview, do512.com. May, 2014.

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• Thankfully, readers send a lot of stuff. They see stories in their local newspaper. Or friends of mine email me, what they heard or saw. ... I'm very plugged in

  Perez Hilton

  Stuff, Saws, Email

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.

  John Updike

  Book, Hands, Numbers

  John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.

  Arthur Miller

  War, Two, United States

  Interview with William R. Ferris, www.neh.gov. March/April 2001.

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