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memories rain path
I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain. Azar Nafisi
memories writing past
As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem. Benjamin Cardozo
memories reality past
It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality. Brad Meltzer
memories who-we-are matter
Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY. Brad Meltzer
memories night light
The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness. Carson McCullers
memories inspiration imagination
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form. Carol Ann Duffy
memories trying really-great
I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories. Channing Tatum
memories grateful thinking
I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not. Richard Paul Evans
memories rap loss
... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk. Bret Easton Ellis
odds perspective people
I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers. Charles Bukowski
odds pay-the-price people
Most people want to be rich but they do not want to pay the price, in fact there are ways of becoming rich in which the odds are in the person's favor Robert Kiyosaki
odds age spirit
Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time! Anne Rice
odds giving facts
No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you. Robert Greene
odds government ego
As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion. Richard Linklater
odds minorities gains
Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds. Swami Vivekananda
odds giving levels
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2 per cent. point), or one in a hundred (the 1 per cent. point). Personally, the writer prefers to set a low standard of significance at the 5 per cent. point, and ignore entirely all results which fail to reach this level. A scientific fact should be regarded as experimentally established only if a properly designed experiment rarely fails to give this level of significance. Ronald Fisher
odds favors slips
One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered. Suzanne Collins
odds teeth fairy-tale
The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth. Marina Warner
identity-politics defining fans
I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it. Andrej Pejic
identity ache faceless
And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches. Sylvia Plath
identity your-smile denial
If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity. Jean-Francois Cope
identity fiction world
You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me. Khaled Hosseini
identity informed petty seem super thinking thoughts
To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great. Jeff Goldblum
identity rich possession
The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity. Oswald Chambers
identity national-identity nations
Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
identity knows
She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't. Nikki Giovanni
identity way lost
If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself-or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself. Oprah Winfrey