179 Quotes

#1. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in the Kingdom of This World (179).

Alejo Carpentier

#2. I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

Sam Childers

#3. I'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering it livable. It's detective work, of sorts, crouching stealthily in the blind alleys of the unconscious. (179)

Jonathan Kellerman

#4. Here's a guy [Marco Rubio] - here's a guy that buys a house for $179,000, he sells it to a lobbyist who's probably here for $380,000 and then legislation is passed. You tell me about this guy. This is what we're going to have as president.

Donald Trump

#5. I am yours. Whatever you ask of me it is done."- Marc (Marked Book #1) page 179

A.N. Meade

#6. Even as rowers must subsume their often fierce sense of independence and self-reliance, at the same time they must hold true to their individuality, their unique capabilities as oarsmen or oarswomen or, for that matter, as human beings.
p 179

Daniel James Brown

#7. I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.

Jeffrey Archer

#8. I'm not a big guy anyway. I'm only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for 'Batman,' 179 for 'Warrior.' Films make you look big.

Tom Hardy

#9. Tragedy is the common lot of man. 'So many people have lost children' I remind myself. pp 178-179
This tragedy is such an inextricable part of my story that it cannot be left out of an honest record. Suffering - no matter how multiplied - is always individual. p 179

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#10. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer valid? In modern times a thought can be refuted, yes, but not retracted. (p. 179)

Milan Kundera

#11. So you never know when you can get through.
p 179 Jack the Bus Driver talking about helping a woman on the bus who was an alcoholic

Rachel Simon

#12. Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point." (179)

Elizabeth Strout

#13. This sadness wasn't a huge part of me
I wasn't remotely depressed
but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]

Dani Shapiro

#14. Just as no significant work of art can be created without the element of irrationality that is in fact the artist's talent." p.179
"He wondered if there was a greater distance than the one between two people in the same bed pretending to sleep." p.213

Henning Mankell

#15. The oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179)

Mev Puleo

#16. I've worked on the physical side and I think I'm a player that can do most things.

Jamie Redknapp

#17. That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#18. My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.

Sam Shepard

#19. I used to be different. Now I'm the same.

Werner Erhard

#20. What's the point of changing who you are in order to impress a woman, when your intention is to return to who you were, a person she was never attracted to in the first place?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#21. We've all got to remember to pick our battles carefully, to be prepared to lose small ones, and to hold out for big ones.

Margaret Kennedy

#22. You're braver than you believe and stronger and smarter than you think.

A.A. Milne

#23. His question reminded me of how easy he had been to deceive, so easy that he seemed to me almost a conniver at his wife's unfaithfulness, as the man who leaves loose banknotes in a hotel bedroom connives at theft, and I hated him for the very quality which had once helped my love.

Graham Greene

#24. If you stand at the window where I stood, if you read the books that I read, if we can be with each other even just like that ... then lets, count that as us being together. I'll miss you alot. I love you. I love you ...

T.O.P