"Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?"

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Mary Oliver

#Lasts Quotes #Done Quotes #Should Quotes

“If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.”
“When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.”

Source : Robert Kagan (2007). “Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order”, p.4, Vintage
“I never believed in love at first sight, until I met Derek. It's all-consuming and delicious and wonderful and exciting. At the same time, it makes me nervous and self-conscious and emotional. Love exists. I know it does, because I'm madly, deeply, hopelessly in love.”
“People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.”
“We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.”
“Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness”

Source : Mark Mirabello (2005). “The Cannibal Within”, p.59, Mandrake
“Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.”
“I think maybe I was instrumental in taking the stereotype out of the Southern actor is some ways. I would hope my legacy would be as a serious actor who told the truth and did parts based on the quality of part and not necessarily the money.”

Source : "Janet Jackson believed 'God's will' would determine whether she ever became a mum" by Edward Roberts, www.mirror.co.uk. May 5, 2016.

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