A Quotes
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“All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?”
“All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.”
Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
“All my life, following the warrior's code has taken me to places I was afraid to go. But always when I got there I was glad I made the journey.”
“All my life, from birth, it's been a fight. And it always seemed to be another man's war. I always seemed to be fighting for someone else. But it always came back to me. The Word says we're born into sin, and sin always comes back to war.”
“All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.”
“All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.”
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
“All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.”
“All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.”
“All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a lot of things I learned in school. But now I've found I don't have the right to make a judgment on someone based on something I've read. I don't have the right to judge anything. That's the lesson I've learned”
“All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.”
“All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.”
“All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.”
“All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.”
Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set
“All my life, I'd been on the receiving end of my mother's endless tenderness and vigilant care. Being allowed to care for her during her recovery was a gift – the most rewarding experience in my life.”
“All my life, I've been a type 1 diabetic. I've always taken life day by day.”
“All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.”
“All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.”
“All my life, I've dreamed in gold.”
“All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.”
“All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.”
Source: The Space Between
“All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be like, 'Well, why are you with me, then?' It's always been men putting me down just like my dad. To this day when someone says I'm cute, I can't see it. I don't see it no matter what anybody says.”
“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem”
“All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.”
“All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.”
“All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“All my life, since I came to the Institute, you were the mirror of my soul. I saw the good in me in you. In your eyes alone I found grace. When you are gone from me, who will see me like that?”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.”
“All my life, since the time I was little, has been a long distraction. At least that is the way some people want to perceive it, but for me, it's given me a lot of strength.”
“All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones.”
“All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.”
“All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see little except violence and fear. In those early years, I somehow came to understand I would have to draw from within myself whatever emotional resources I needed to go wherever I was headed. As a result, for years, I became a boy who lived almost totally within himself.”
“All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid.”
“All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.”
“All my loves leave me in the winter snow.”
“All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.”
“All my main characters are people I'd love to sit around having coffee with. They are people who will tell you honestly about the things that scare them and worry them and trouble them. Because those moments of connection between women-when they really decide to be honest with each other about their lives-are some of the best things in life.”
“All my makeup tricks are from modeling jobs! It's my favorite part of the job - learning new tricks!”
“All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it.”
“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“All my memories are things I gave away, traded for new days after days after days...”
Source: Placid Girl
“All my memories of my father include some manifestation of his disability, even if none of us were quite willing to call it that yet. What I knew at the time was that my dad moved a bit more slowly than other dads. I sometimes saw him pausing before walking up a flight of stairs, as if needing to think through the maneuver before actually attempting it.”
Source: Becoming
“All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.”
“All my money comes from show money. You might get your deals, your advancements to do your album, but it wasn't in great abundance. Everybody's money in the '90s came from doing shows. That's a whole lot of show money, and that's it.”
“All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don't understand it.”
“All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.”
“All my moral and intellectual being is penetrated by an invincible conviction that whatever falls under the dominion of our senses must be in nature and, however exceptional, cannot differ in its essence from all the other effects of the visible and tangible world of which we are a self-conscious part. The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries as it is—marvels and mysteries acting upon our emotions and intelligence in ways so inexplicable that it would almost justify the conception of life as an enchanted state. No, I am too firm in my consciousness of the marvelous to be ever fascinated by the mere supernatural which . . . is but a manufactured article, the fabrication of minds insensitive to the intimate delicacies of our relation to the dead and to the living, in their countless multitudes; a desecration of our tenderest memories; an outrage on our dignity.”
“All my mornings are false starts.”
Source: No Sleep Till Wonderland
“All my moves were designed to promote the happiness and wellbeing of my family, rather than fame.”
“All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.”