Ingrid Law famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I wished that I...had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless.
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Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do?
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When something like that comes along, whether it's an accident or a savvy or a very first kiss, life takes a turn and you can't step back. All you can do is keep moving forward and remember what you've learned.
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I suppose you can never tell right off who might have a piece of Prince Charming deep down inside.
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You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.
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You can't get rid of a part that makes you you and be happy.
-- Ingrid Law
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What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?
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In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.
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There isn't heartache if there hasn't been joy. I wouldn't feel loss if there hadn't been love.
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The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.
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Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.
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The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by which He has brought His creatures into existence and are the cause of that bringing into existence. He who knows that he possesses neither being nor act rediscovers himself in that original state of pleasure and divine love.
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Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
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God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
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Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.
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I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.
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