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Barbara Inspirational Quotes (1535)

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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
Barbara Kingsolver
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You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.
Barbara Hamby
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Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn instead toward a definition of faith as openness to truth, whatever truth may turn out to be.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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Love and kindness are never wasted.
Barbara De Angelis
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The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until at some imperceptible moment, by the some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.
Barbara Tuchman
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
Barbara Kingsolver
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We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
Barbara Kruger
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Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.
Barbara Ann Kipfer
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Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.
Barbara Pym
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I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people’s marginalization from what the art subculture is because if you haven’t crashed the codes, and if you don’t know what it is, you feel it’s a conspiracy against your unintelligence. You feel it’s fraud.
Barbara Kruger
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
Barbara Bush
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No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.
Barbara Goldsmith
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Synergy does not mean giving up what we want. It means joining to co-create so each is able to receive ever more of what attracts us through joining rather than opposing.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
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If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
Barbara Mertz
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.
Barbara Stanwyck
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It's been such a huge part of my life, it's hard for me to separate it out. All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood. I was around these amazing people and went to exotic locations. The whole movie-making thing is so magical.
Barbara Broccoli
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.
Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn
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Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming.
Barbara Sher
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The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.
Barbara Holland
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There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
Barbara Kingsolver
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