Serious Quotes - Page 37

• Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Differences, Opinion, Unexpected

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• Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Favorite Words, Normal

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• Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

  Gloria Steinem

  Self Esteem, Blessing, Force

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.396, Open Road Media

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• I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the Moment. Just possibly, she may be the wisest woman on this planet.

  Erma Bombeck

  Philosophy, Three, May

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.340, Open Road Media

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• My voice is soft, but oh, my heart roars!

  Dave Matthews

  Heart, Voice, My Heart

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• You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget.

  Steve Miller

  Remember, Forget

  Song: Jungle Love

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• Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.

  Ewan McGregor

  Politician, Craze, Courses

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• There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mean, Important, Gone

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• I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

  Peter Tosh

  Rights, Justice, Needs

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• Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

  George Carlin

  Ideas, Giving, Choices

  "Life Is Worth Losing". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.

  Ben Harper

  Fall, Flying High, Dying

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• Any shlub can pick up a girl at a bar. Want a challenge? Try keeping a beautiful woman happy for ten years running.

  Peter Burke

  Beautiful, Girl, Running

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• Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?

  Ben Harper

  Morning, Believe, Fall

  Song: The Woman In You, 2001

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• I learned to swing on monkey bars over asphalt. I learned that if you fall, it hurts, so you try not to fall. But it's still worth swinging.

  Tim Cordes

  Hurt, Fall, Swings

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• We have a choice every day between fear and love.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Choices, And Love, Love And Fear

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• A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Sadness, Yesterday, Broken

  Song: And The Wind Cries Mary

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• The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Poetry, Novelists, Aristocracy

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• Truth, like love, is never absolute.

  E. Lynn Harris

  Love Is, Like Love, Absolutes

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• The feel of the place was deep, the prehistoric heartbeat of the rocks complicating the music, the people bright, all different kinds of dancers, smilers, swayers, swirlers, smokers, beer-drinking boppers, tripsters, spinners. I looked back at the crowd...and saw the show for a moment as a jewel...like a gem in a bracelet: an ornament on the body of the country, glittering in the coming darkness.

  Jason Burke

  Country, Drinking, Beer

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• It doesn't have to be fun to be fun.

  Mark Twight

  Fun

  Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.9, The Mountaineers Books

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• There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator on his own account. The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is even highly probable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Health, Men

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• But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

  Roger Penrose

  Beauty, Pregnancy, Thinking

  "Secrets of the Old One". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.

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• I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

  Nia Long

  Children, Thinking, Everything Happens For A Reason

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never been a character that's looked this extreme.

  Rick Yune

  Character, Trying, Berries

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But if you look at teams that want to share more revenues, they're teams that don't have a lot on the table. They've long since not had any serious investment in their team.

  Jerry Jones

  Team, Long, Looks

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