Paul Theroux Quotes

What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.

Paul Theroux

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LifePeopleMeRealizationWhole

I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.

Michael B. Jordan

SorryBornOrangeCaliforniaFirst

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

Sun Tzu

YourselfYouEnemyIgnorantYour

I want a little black girl to pick up my book one day and see herself as the star. I want her to know that she's beautiful, and she matters, and she can have a crazy, magical adventure even if an ignorant part of the world tells her she can never be Hermione Granger.

Tomi Adeyemi

GirlBeautifulDayAdventureCrazy

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

Rudolf Otto

JusticeLieReligionSweetDeepNow

Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You can't get much less sexy, less active than that.

Joshua Michael Stern

ComputersSexyDoingYouActiveGet

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

Douglas Coupland

LifeAchievementBelieveBetterFind

When I was a kid. I had traveled the world by the time I was 13 years old because of all the competitions I did for inline skating.

Brittany Bowe

TimeWorldTraveledSkatingOldKid

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

Alice Morse Earle

FamilySufferingBibleOldDistress

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

LifePassionGodCryCherishOut

Our vision is to, one day, connect all of Europe with our Hyperloop One system, networking the entire continent.

Shervin Pishevar

VisionDayNetworkingOne DayEurope

Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.

Tyra Banks

HeartCloseHomelessnessIssue

Have gratitude for the things you're discarding. By giving gratitude, you're giving closure to the relationship with that object, and by doing so, it becomes a lot easier to let go.

Marie Kondo

RelationshipGratitudeGivingDoing

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