Siobhan Dowd famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.
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The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.
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Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.
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has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love?
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What goes up, must come down... Mustn't it?
-- Siobhan Dowd
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If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
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The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.
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George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.
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Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.
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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
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As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.
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Remember kids, I have life insurance.
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This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.
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The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.
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The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.
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