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“Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.”

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.”

Knows Years Said I Can Home Age Remember Mother Left Parent Kitchen Restaurants Chef Apprenticeship Home Home

Author:Jacques Pepin

“Everyone keeps me telling me how great a knee replacement is. Whitey Ford said it was great and so did Ralph Branca. If I had one of those, I don't know that I would retire. But if I left for a month or more, who's going to want me back?”

Ifs Knows Want Said Left Months Knees Retiring Want Me Yankees New York Yankees Replacements

Author:Don Zimmer

“Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do. On the other hand, the guy's not around now. And, well, this guy may be able to do it against left-handers if my guy ain't strong enough. I know one of my guys is gonna do it.”

Ifs Knows Wells May Enough Hands Able Guy Left Strong Can Do Hitting This Guy Yankees Strong Enough New York Yankees Fellas Left Handers

Author:Casey Stengel

“Standing on the Moon looking back at Earth - this lovely place you just came from - you see all the colours, and you know what they represent. Having left the water planet, with all that water brings to Earth in terms of colour and abudance life, the absence of water and atmosphere on the desolate surface of the Moon gives rise to a stark contrast.”

Knows Giving Earth Left Term Water Planets Moon Standing Surface Absence Lovely Atmosphere Colour Contrast Looking Back Starks Desolate

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber is - I'm knocking everywhere.”

Knows Jesus Left Air Atheism Praying Positive Atheism Chamber Knocking

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“I think, as the writer, you're always going to mourn something [left out of a film]. But you also just want to know there's a good reason for it being left out. On the whole, you want to give something to somebody creative. The worst thing you can do is say, "Here, be creative, but do it like I want you to do it." I was always very mindful of that.”

Thinking Knows Want Giving Reason Whole Film Left Can Do Creative Worst I Want You Worst Things Be Creative Mourn Left Out

Author:Markus Zusak

“We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was sacked from his village and stoned at Ta'if, but he quietly left for Medina. If both of these men, beaten, and bloodied-the incarnations of their respective faiths-asked God to forgive their aggressors, then who were today's religious leaders to advocate holy war?”

Ifs Knows Men War Today Turns Jesus Left Religious Leader Taught Holy Forgiving Village Cheeks Beaten Incarnation Slap Aggressors Religious Leaders Holy War Medina

Author:Eliza Griswold

“We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.”

Knows Feels Wanted Joy Courses Left Sky Particular Lonely Climate Landscape Hated Loser Location Loner So Lonely Insomniac

Book:Indivisible

Source: Indivisible

“I remember walking into the Bible study. I had a knot in my stomach. In my mind, only weirdoes and zealots went to Bible studies. I don't remember what was said that day. All I know is that when I left, everything had changed. I'll never forget standing outside that apartment on the Upper East Side and saying to myself, “It's true. It's completely true.” The world looked entirely different, like a veil had been lifted off it. I had not an iota of doubt. I was filled with indescribable joy.”

“Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.”

Ifs Knows Love Art Left Know How Tree Flower Worship Bird Dear Caught Neglected Forgetfulness Caged

Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.”

Knows Men Needs Mean Left Enemy Be Good

Book:The Plays of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Plays of Oscar Wilde

“In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.”

Source: KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...

“The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.”

Knows Should Mind Left Doors Temples Highways Open Mind

Book:Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

Source: Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

“Anyone who has raised more than one child knows full well that kids turn out the way they turn out - astonishingly, for the most part, and usually quite unlike their siblings, even their twins, raised under the same flawed rooftree. Little we have done or said, or left undone and unsaid, seems to have made much mark. It's hubris to suppose ourselves so influential; a casual remark on the playground is as likely to change their lives as any dedicated campaign of ours. They come with much of their own software already in place, waiting, and none of the keys we press will override it.”

“We're a shifty, sliding population. ... What we refer to as 'home' may be a place we haven't seen in years; a place where there's no one left who knows our name.”

Knows Years May Home Names Left Havens Population

Author:Barbara Holland

“There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.”

People Knows Trying May Left My Own Photography Photographer Unsaid

Author:Garry Winogrand

“I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.”

Knows World Night Fall Left Dark Morning Kings Worried Consent Daybreak

Book:Three Wonder Plays

Source: Three Wonder Plays

“The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.”

Knows Men Trying Use Left Christ Grace He Man Following Deceiving Justified Discipleship Inseparable Following Christ

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house did.”

Knows Way Country Home Running Found House Left Feminism Mom My Mom

Author:Joss Whedon

“Going up to Canada is great because I'm not dealing with people carrying their agendas into the room. I'm lucky because 97% of the people who come to the show know who they are dealing with, whether they are on the left or the right, we're sharing the same frustration.”

People Knows Shows Left Rooms Lucky Canada Frustration Agendas Dealing With People

Author:Lewis Black

“I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time.”

Thinking Knows Wells Character Left Skins He Left Me

Author:Peter Mayhew

“I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.”

Knows Children Different Hate Left Natural Environment Listening Adults Abuse Prejudice Safety Tolerance Piano Nonsense Devices Traits Riding Bike Norm Gang Amused Natural Environment Armchairs

Author:Josh Lieb

“Coaching staff: I know there's days you look at that film and you want to kill me. I'm not playing defense, taking bad shots, getting too many techs. But you always believe that I can be the guy. Through the tough times, you guys never left my side... That's something that I really appreciate and I never want to take you guys for granted. I thank you so much for being part of my life. And not just on the basketball court, but giving me talks about growing as a man first, and a basketball player next.”

“Prepare like no other, know that there was nothing left for you to do when it's all said and done. This way a loss is just a stat. The better man will always win if he prepared like no other.”

Ifs Knows Men Way Said Done Motivational Winning Left Loss Prepared Said And Done Better Man

Author:Dan Harris

“I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.”

Knows Writing Stills Wanted School Left Causes Nouns

Author:Nick Frost

“A building get torched. All that is left is ashes. I used to think that it is true about everything - family, friends, feelings - but now I know that sometimes if love proves real, and two people are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Two Real Sometimes Feelings Together Used Left Building Prove Meant To Be Ashes Family Friends Meant To Be Together

Author:Sarah

“My right wrist is connected to the left foot. You know, if the left foot doesn't work, the right wrist doesn't work, and that's really the truth.”

Ifs Knows Left Feet Havens Connected Wrists

Author:Richie Havens

“Before I ran for District Attorney, two Republicans invited my husband and me to lunch. And I knew a party-switch was exactly what they wanted. So, I told Chuck, we'll be polite, enjoy a free lunch and then say goodbye. But we talked about issues - they never used the words Republican, or Democrat, conservative or liberal. We talked about many issues, like welfare - is it a way of life, or a hand-up? Talked about the size of government - how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, "I'll be damned, we're Republicans."”

“I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.”

People Thinking Knows Way Believe Has Beens Government Political Left Party Lessons Iraq Political Parties Invasion

Author:William Hague

“My main goal, starting out as a young actor, was to carry the reins that Pac left off and to reach the depths as an actor that I know he would have reached had he still been here with us.”

Knows Stills Young Actors Left Goal Depth Starting Reins Starting Out Young Actors Pacs

Author:Michael K. Williams

“God has always been in my life and his little voice in me that lets me know when I'm falling a little too far left or right, up or down you know. I know because there is a little voice that starts saying, 'damn it, what are you doing? You need to slow down with that' or I might not be a good person to hang around you know... So God will do this to me in some sort of way. Or something bad will happen to me.”

Knows Way Needs Littles Happens Fall Left Voice Let Me Gods Will Slow Down Doing You

Author:Queen Latifah

“The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space - excuse me, that's how you know where grandma lives, and when to make the left turn.”

People Knows Needs Turns House Left Space Talking Phones Following Excuse Cells Instruction Cell Phone Grandma Excuse Me People Talking Gps Grandma's House

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I think great businessmen are more likely made than born. I don't know if it's from your upbringing, your parental background, the struggles you go through. In my own particular situation, I left school at 15 and I was struggling to survive in the jungle and that was a great education. So I think just getting out there, hands on, learning to survive teaches you a lot.”

“It's weird to make a decision where everyone in your life disapproves, pretty vocally and directly. They said, "You've got one year left. Just do it." I had a full scholarship so I didn't have to pay for it. They asked, "Why don't you just get the degree so you can have it?" And I said, "You don't understand. I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do and now I know. I have the answer and it's dumb to waste any more time."”

Knows Trying Years Said Wanted Left Decision Answers Pay Figures Degrees Waste Dumb More Time They Said Scholarship Just Do It

Author:Demetri Martin

“The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.”

Knows Left Waste Plant Dirty Coal Minerals Power Plants

Author:Charles Duhigg

“I dont know whos left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, weve got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it till nobody shows up to see it anymore.”

People Ifs Knows Want Real Shows Left Plans Rocks Band Real Things

Author:Ronnie Hawkins

“TLC has helped me to know that as a musician, I can talk about anything; that there are no barriers, and that you can be yourself. That's what I love about them. Left Eye in particular helped me to stay on top of my A game. She's one of the best female MCs that I've heard.”

Knows I Can Eye Games Left Heard Particular Musician Female Being Yourself Barriers Left Eye Best Female

Author:Lil' Mama

“You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.”

Thinking Knows Believe Art Left Art Is Don't Believe Supposed To Be Make Sense Listeners

Author:Shelby Lynne

“The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the jetsam of smug bibilolatrists who claim to know precisely what God is thinking and exactly what he plans to do.”

Thinking Knows Christian Left Loss Plans Claims Angry Cynical Transcendence Capricious Flotsam

Author:Brennan Manning

“An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one. I can't help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.”

“You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and it was left unfinished and somebody else finished it. But through radio carbon dating we know that the next one completed the painting 5,000 years later. You're just blown away by the notion of passage of time. We have no relationship to that kind of depth of time.”

Knows Way Years Kind Next Left Painting Dating Depth Notion Radio Finished Passages Carbon Abyss Unfinished The Next One Passage Of Time Unfathomable Blown Away Charcoal

Author:Werner Herzog

“The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.”

Knows May Purpose Left Know How Goes On Tired Vacation

Author:Nhat Hanh

“From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.”

Knows House Left Wish Knowledge Perspective Towns Towers Rise Above

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.”

Knows Giving War Reason Helping Use Left Brain Havens Be Good Shut Up

Book:Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Source: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

“Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”

Knows Men Soul Dies Left Vision Truth Is Eternal Ears Tragedy Raises Storm Mortality Spectators Fury Sailor

Author:George Santayana

“You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.”

Knows Law Guy Fighting Winning Left Waiting Standing Prize

Author:David Mamet

“If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.”

Ifs Knows Writing Stills Beautiful Left One Thing Really Beautiful

Author:J. B. Priestley

“My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.”

Knows Feels Mind Wells Heart Soul Life Is Joy Left My Heart Infinite My Soul Weeping Glowing Rapture Brothers Karamazov Approaching Life

Book:The Brothers Karamazov

Source: The Brothers Karamazov

“... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.”

People Knows Kind Has Beens I Can Happens Left Felt Taken Wind Slavery Angry Backgrounds Oppression Know Me Could Have Been

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer