Jessie Burton famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.
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The bars on our cage are of our own making.
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Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.
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Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.
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But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?
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But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.
-- Jessie Burton
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You are the architect of your own loneliness.
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Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.
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With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
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I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.
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Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.
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The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
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