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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
‐‐ Jean Paul -
Like a physically beautiful but otherwise rather dull person who trades on his or her looks, Southern California swings perpetually between a profound inferiority complex and an equally profound sense of entitlement.
‐‐ Meghan Daum -
Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.
‐‐ Maya Angelou -
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
‐‐ Lucy Larcom -
Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
‐‐ Os Guinness -
Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
‐‐ Sylvia Earle -
Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.
‐‐ Carlo Ratti -
Like a typical Gemini I'm changeable, I can be two different types of people. I can be very outgoing, but sometimes very shy.
‐‐ Denise Van Outen -
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
‐‐ Langston Hughes -
Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin -
Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
‐‐ Michael Ledeen -
Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home, after a while I decided it was time to go home, let us put the cubes back in order. And it was at that moment that I came face to face with the Big Challenge: What is the way home?
‐‐ Erno Rubik -
Like all Americans, I will never forget where I was the morning of the 9/11 attacks.
‐‐ Kirsten Gillibrand -
Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique in our ability to use resources on a scale and at a speed that our fellow species can't.
‐‐ Edward Burtynsky -
Like all art, nonfiction film should invite, seduce, or force us to confront the most difficult, frightening or mysterious aspects of what it means to be human.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer -
Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.
‐‐ Nikki Sixx -
Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.
‐‐ Kelly Jones -
Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation.
‐‐ John Hawkins -
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre -
Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb -
Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it's always a reflection of wars, trading, a bunch of good and a bunch of bad. But what's left is always the food story.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson -
Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams -
Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.
‐‐ Jennifer Saunders -
Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.
‐‐ Joni Eareckson Tada -
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli -
Like all holy figures whose earthly existence separates them from the broad mass of humanity, a saint is a story, and Joan of Arc's is like no other.
‐‐ Kathryn Harrison -
Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon -
Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
‐‐ Dallas Roberts -
Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.
‐‐ Deb Caletti -
Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul; where this is not kept in mind there is no true music, but only an infernal clamour and ranting.
‐‐ Johann Sebastian Bach -
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
‐‐ Agnes Smedley -
Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.
‐‐ Al Capp -
Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
‐‐ Carlos Fuentes -
Like all of my colleagues, I believe financial reform is necessary now.
‐‐ Scott Garrett -
Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
‐‐ Ted Dekker -
Like all of my previous work - which I also hope is a bit hard to categorise - 'The Oopsatoreum' is an illustrated book, so a combination of words and pictures that tell a kind of story.
‐‐ Shaun Tan -
Like all of us, I don't think Facebook is 100% evil, but there are aspects of it that move towards evilness. It's true of all the major Silicon Valley companies, that there are aspects to all of them that move towards evilness, but I don't believe they're 100% evil.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang -
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
‐‐ Dean Koontz -
Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings.
‐‐ Josh Silver -
Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.
‐‐ Ted Nugent -
Like all paradises, Topanga is pitched at the tipping point of promise and peril.
‐‐ Steve Erickson -
Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.
‐‐ Michelle Pfeiffer -
Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
‐‐ Zadie Smith -
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
‐‐ Eugene Ionesco -
Like all rice, black rice is great at absorbing flavours, but it's just as happy to act as a satiny bed for a poached egg, say, if you want to keep things simple.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi -
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
‐‐ James Mark Baldwin -
Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
‐‐ Karen Horney -
Like all sciences, chemistry is marked by magic moments. For someone fortunate enough to live such a moment, it is an instant of intense emotion: an immense field of investigation suddenly opens up before you.
‐‐ Yves Chauvin -
Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.
‐‐ Christian Lous Lange
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