D. Elton Trueblood Quotes

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

D. Elton Trueblood

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LifeGardeningManPlantsStart

Some of the best actors think they're terrible; that's what keeps you connected to a vulnerability that makes it possible for people to empathize with you.

Jessie Mueller

BestPeopleThinkYouPossibleSome

At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can think about is you'. I thought that was the sort of thing you had to say.

Joe Thomas

GirlHistoryThinkThoughtYouSaid

I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

Jeff Lindsay

SeriousPossibleTryWriteJoke

I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.

John Sherman Cooper

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The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.

Steven Biko

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Hospice has brought such a light in my life. It is something I will be involved with until I need hospice myself.

Torrey DeVitto

LifeLightMyselfMy LifeWillNeed

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

Tone Loc

ManFightingTryingYouKnowOut

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

Chuck Palahniuk

LoveSayingYouAlwaysWellHow

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

Brittany Murphy

InspirationalChangeGoodTimeThink

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

Antonio Tabucchi

OthersAlwaysBeenWriterInterested

I loved reading 'Anne of Green Gables' and 'Little Women' and Jane Austen. Those were times when people really did have only one true love in their life.

Annaleigh Ashford

LifeLoveWomenTrue LovePeople

I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.

Paulo Coelho

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