A Quote by Rebecca Solnit

There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.

Rebecca Solnit

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Rebecca Solnit
American - Writer
Born: June 24, 1961

The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.

Wendell Berry

In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved.

Deepak Chopra

I simply remix an artist accommodating the way I wish to see this track. Remixing is entirely personal for me, music is entirely personal for me, and it has to be a natural process.

Justin Broadrick

The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational.

Edward Hirsch

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Jean de la Bruyere

There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

Oscar Wilde

My twenties were entirely taken up with literature. Entirely.

Thomas McGuane

I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.

K. Flay

Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

Jane Hirshfield

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

Thomas a Kempis

a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.

Hermann Hesse

The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal with that. Because that is what life is like.

Ricky Gervais

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We should remember that none of us is perfect and none of us has children whose behavior is entirely in accord with exactly what we would have them do in all circumstances.