Metalious Grace Quotes

#1. One good thing about being an immigrant in the US, no one cares about my sociopolitical opinion. I exist like a bland wallpaper to all races.

Fidelis O. Mkparu

#2. We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

Peter Yarrow

#3. And often Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" before coming to Denton, ideas and images culled from a hundred magazine stories and as many movies. Where were the convertibles, the secret bottles of liquor, the gay young men and their wild girl friends?

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#4. You have to know how to score.

Brett Hull

#5. Nude is a word as smoooth as your hips ... but naked has the sound of a rock being turned over to expose maggots.

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#6. Most people who possess life in reality, do not quite understand what they possess.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

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#8. When I walk out on that stage, I just want America to know, that this is what I'm supposed to do. This is my dream.

Pia Toscano

#9. How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

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#10. A mature Christian is a humble Christian

Dan Schilling

#11. If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

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#12. Did it ever occur to you, Charlie, that tolerance can reach a point where it is no longer tolerance? When that happens, the noble-sounding attitude on which most of us pride ourselves degenerates into weakness and acquiescence.

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#13. I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.

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#14. I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.

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#15. The public loves to create a hero ... Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.

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#16. I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

Gore Vidal

#17. Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

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#18. False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#19. A Warrior is never in a hurry.

Paulo Coelho

#20. There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer.

Terry Tempest Williams

#21. I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary.

David Byrne

#22. Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read?

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#23. Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

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#24. Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one is never sure whether she will come at all, nor for how long she will stay.

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#25. Indian summer is like a woman.

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#26. Not that she was a know-it-all - it didn't seem to be an ego thing with her. She just assumed that everybody shared her desire for everybody to be clear on everything, and she'd expect you to do the same for her.

Lev Grossman

#27. Then he prayed for ( ... ) and all the rest who made up his world.

Jan Karon

#28. She saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death.

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#29. Give me a child until he is seven, thought Tom, and he is forever after mine. When the Fascists say it, they're bums and kidnappers, but when the Church says it, it is known as putting a kid on the right track.

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#30. If every man, ... ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

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#31. when you start telling a man he's got to do this, that or the other thing, you're coming pretty damned close to infringing on a citizen's rights.

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#32. It was as if each of them sensed vaguely that the Saturday afternoons of youth are few, and precious, and this feeling which neither of them could have defined or described made every moment of this time together too short, too quickly gone, yet clearer and more sharply edged than any other.

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#33. There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

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#34. Science has taken away our religion.

Bryan Appleyard

#35. Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

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#36. Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all

Thomas Brooks