Slate Quotes - Page 4

• The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only in themselves, their tender spines, but in the moments or periods they evoked… Her self, then, was represented in her books; her times in her records; and the rest of the room she thought of as a pure, blank slate.

  Claire Messud

  Wall, Book, Self

  FaceBook post by Claire Messud from Aug 23, 2012

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• Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

  George MacDonald

  Forgiveness, Joy, Clean

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• What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sad Love, Believe, Bad Relationship

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.675, Hamilton Books

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• Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become. Then the teachers, the priests, the leaders - they all go on emphasizing that you have to become somebody; otherwise, you have wasted your life. Just the opposite is the case. You are a being. You need not become anybody else. That is the meaning of simplicity: remaining at ease with one's being, and not going on any track of becoming - which is unending.

  Rajneesh

  Teacher, Children, Writing

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• You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Science, Numbers, Giving

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• Developing countries present a real opportunity for sustainable consumption. There, we can start from a clean slate and develop appropriate products and services that serve people's needs in a more efficient, integrated way.

  Paul Meyer

  Country, Real, Opportunity

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• So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that our Earth has fashioned itself, from its chaos of substances and powers, through the animating warmth of the creative spirit, to a peculiar and original whole, by a series of preparatory revolutions, till at last the crown of its creation, the exquisite and tender creature man, was enabled to appear.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Book, Science, Men

  Johann Gottfried Herder (1800). “Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man”, p.259

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• My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed and out of order, dogs barking from behind fences meant to keep out intruders. It's not the place that impoverishes me but I who bring my own sense of poverty, of loss, to the place. It's a sense of near nothingness, as though I were not so much a blank slate as an erased chalkboard, still bearing illegible smudges of smoothed-over writing.

  Marco Roth

  Dog, Loneliness, Writing

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• I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them. I think if you're a good enough actor, that's the way to longevity in the film business. Keep everybody guessing.

  Christian Bale

  Believe, Character, Thinking

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

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• I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, a thief. And I would have told, except that a part of me was glad. Glad that this would all be over with soon. Baba would dismiss them, there would be some pain, but life would move on. I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Pain, Liars, Moving

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.51, A&C Black

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• If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

  Nancy Friday

  Men, Years, Wipe

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• When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Graffiti, Principles, Constitution

  "NRA chief: Obama makes 'mockery' of American freedoms" by Lateef Mungin, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166

  Basil Bunting

  Names, Splits, Months

  1966 Briggflatts.

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• You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.

  Cillian Murphy

  Trying, Needs, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, World, Social

  William Graham Sumner (1924). “Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner”

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• There is no release
  In a bodkin or disease,
  Nor can there be a work so great
  As that which cleans man's dirty slate.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Art, Dirty

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.179

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• Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.

  Dada Vaswani

  Karma, Dirty, Past

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• Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Travel, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.227, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My first car was in 2006 when I got on my first TV show - a BMW 328i2 four-door sedan in slate grey. That was a great day, that was.

  Rebecca Mader

  Doors, Bmw, Tv Shows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

  Ray Charles

  Blank, Chalk, Music Is

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• It is so hard for musicians when they step into acting is they're not coming in as a blank slate, they're coming in with a real set idea of who they are, where they're coming from, what their politics are, what their tastes are.

  Shirley Manson

  Real, Ideas, Acting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

  George Sand

  Life Is, Sin, Repentance

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• Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in the Arctic Circle and in the balmiest tropics; it also grows on the fur of sloths, on the backs of snails, on decaying human bones. ... It is a resurrection engine. A single clump of mosses can lie dormant and dry for forty years at a stretch, and then vault back again into life with a mere soaking of water.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Lying, Years, Circles

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.169, A&C Black

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• Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

  Patti Smith

  Future, Dark, Arrows

  Song: Upright Come, Album: Gung Ho, 2000

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• Every day when a man or woman gets dressed, they are in effect defining who they are. That daily clean slate is a time in our lives when we can determine who we want to be.

  Kenneth Cole

  Men, Want, Defining

  FaceBook post by Kenneth Cole from Apr 28, 2012

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