Teri Terry Quotes

#1. I almost gasp out loud when I realise: Who I am is what I choose to do. Just like Mum. Who she is, at her core, is made up of all the decisions she makes.

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#2. As the sun shines down to melt the ice of another winter, to summon spring wildflowers from the earth; as the sky darkens with sudden, drenching showers before the sun returns, I know that both pain and joy are needed for life to grow.

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#3. It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the world will offer us numerous examples, makes one of the greatest charms attached to mathematical speculations.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#4. It doesn't look much from the outside. But what you get outside is often like that. People, especially, can be so different from what you can see that you'd never guess what goes on in their secret places. What they are capable of.

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#5. But soon I forget all they are being and doing and saying, and stare out the window.

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#6. No. I remember. So long as I don't think about it too much, my hands and feet take over; some memory locked into muscle that my brain has nothing to do with.
I know how to drive. And I'm better at it than he is.

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#7. The fact that you are possessed by a demon does not mean you must become evil. Being evil is a choice, just as being good is a choice. If you let the demon take over, it's because you choose to.

James Swain

#8. In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

Frederick Winslow Taylor

#9. To form something greater than the sum of its parts.

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#10. He finds a tissue in his pocket and holds it out. I press it against my lip. Pull it away and look at it. Bright red, though not much of it.
I've had worse.
Have I?

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#11. Like Aiden said: how can you truly love somebody when you don't know who they really are?

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#12. Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.

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#13. Open up your heart and mind to the infinite wonderful experiences there are in life.

Steven Redhead

#14. I have both been given and taken so many identities, but at last I am beginning to grow into my one true name.
This was the gift my mother gave to me: Hope.

Teri Terry

#15. Caring for someone is never a bad thing, even if it doesn't work out

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#16. Being in Weezer's just gotten so much more fun over the years. I love almost every part of my job. My very favorite part is working on new songs.

Rivers Cuomo

#17. Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.

Amira Hass

#18. And think about things, I do: late that night. All through school the next day, wandering to classes, unaware of my surroundings.

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#19. Turn around? No. Keep going, it's the only way to make sure I don't end up going back and forth.

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#20. I was told very sternly at the hospital to avoid boys at all costs. Mess up your levels."
"Oh, they do that!" Amy laughs. "Probably best to leave them alone for a while. The secret, though, is to start with one you're not that bothered about."
What is the point in that?

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#21. Use the fear; feed the anger.

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#22. This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

Matt Taibbi

#23. Past ties twist loyalties.

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#24. His closeness makes my heart beat faster, my skin tingle, my body want things it doesn't even know.

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#25. And wait for the bus in grey drizzle, arms folded tight around myself, shivering against cold that falls from the sky and sinks deep in my bones.

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#26. You, my dear, are getting curiouser and curiouser. Like Alice down the rabbit hole, nothing is as it appears.

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#27. It is one thing to ask questions; what do you do with the answers?

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#28. Seeing what scares you for what it is does not lessen the terror. It still has the power to break your heart, over and over again.

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#29. Simple is hard enough. Who needs complicated?

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#30. No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.

Jack Ma

#31. It might not be perfect, but the fundamental stance I adopted with regard to my home was to accept it, problems and all, because it was something I myself had chosen. If it had problems, these were almost certainly problems that had originated within me.

Haruki Murakami

#32. Truth is freedom. Freedom is truth.

Teri Terry

#33. Politics is not a science ... but an art.

Otto Von Bismarck

#34. Failure is not an option.

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#35. Never forget who you are.

Teri Terry