How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?
– Gabrielle Hamilton
Related Quotes:
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- There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from unclean thoughts and unclean habits. – Billy Graham
- What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see? – Andre Dubus
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- Jealousy is a detestable motive. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves. – Criss Jami
- the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life. – Oscar Wilde
- a detestable, viscous place populated by slugs – Paul Majkut
- My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then. – Gabrielle Hamilton
- This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat. – Gabrielle Hamilton
- All our focus and strength must be concentrated on striving to fulfill the will of God for our lives – Sunday Adelaja
- Instead of fumbling with hot beakers andBunsen burners, I concentrated on the leisurely pursuit of fondling. – Fidelis O Mkparu
- My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits. – Nell Casey
- A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep. – CS Lewis
- I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- When you love something, you seek to learn its primitive form and also its concentrated form. – Unarine Ramaru
- It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated… – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty – Ronald Reagan
- Love is curiosity sometimes. Concentrated wondering about the other one. – Kij Johnson
- Never hurt a woman because she is someone’s mother or will be someone’s mother. Could you hurt your mother? – Debasish Mridha
- The seeds of life inside my womb were present at my birth; a gift from mother’s mother, on back to Mother Earth. – Patricia Robin Woodruff
- A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast. – Angela Carter
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- Making an effort is the firm foundation to your success. You are worth the effort. – Regina R Carver
- Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim-”arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object. – Jack Kornfield
- It takes good effort to begin and a great effort to complete a task. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Understand that great accomplishments require great effort. If a goal is achieved without effort, it is no accomplishment but a mere happening. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Genetics doesn’t ensure love, or even like, time and effort do. You don’t give them your time, and you don’t show them effort – Kim Holden
- Individual effort is good but collective effort is better. We need a NETWORK of nation builders – Fela Durotoye
- ANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE). – Idries Shah
- Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. – Alan W Watts
- Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort – Manoj Arora
- In a relationship, no amount of extra effort on your part can make up for a lack of effort on theirs. – John Mark Green
- Very few changes in life areachieved without effort and acommitment to making that effort. – Domonique Bertolucci
- This separation happened for a reason, this esason is for our own good; God is just positioning us. – Euginia Herlihy
- The world I held so closely, she played me like a game,I released and left her laughing to stand on my own two feet. – Coco J Ginger
- The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don’t have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn’t resemble art in any way. – Jim Benton
- It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate. – Stephen R Donaldson
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- The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself. – Henry Rollins