Filling Quotes - Page 20

• I haven't bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though.

  Kesha

  Baby, Islands, Buying

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Filling a need that others aren't addressing has always been a focus of the companies that I have been involved with.

  Craig McCaw

  Focus, Needs, Company

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• (The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources which, once expended and dissipated, can never be restored; and second, in its technique, its habits, its processes, the paleotechnic period is equally inimical to the earth considered as a human habitat, by its destruction of the beauty of the landscape, its ruining of streams, its pollution of drinking water, its filling the air with a finely divided carboniferous deposit, which chokes both life and vegetation.

  Lewis Mumford

  Drinking, Air, Water

  "The Theory and Practice of Regionalism". The Sociological Review, vol. 20, nos. 1 and 2, 1928.

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• The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th following Initiation, the 21st at the end of the Initiate's second week, and the 89th the first time he brings snacks.

  Adam Rex

  Acceptance, Snacks, Three

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• If I and a need meet, God must have had in mind my filling it.

  Jack Hyles

  Mind, Needs, Ifs

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• There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.

  Horace Bushnell

  Beautiful, Character, Office

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.199

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• Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.

  Carol Gilligan

  Spring, Rain, Love Life

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• I have such a fantastic life that I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude for it. . . . But I don't have anyone to express my gratitude to. This is a void deep inside me, a void of wanting someone to thank, and I don't see any plausible way of filling it.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Gratitude, Fantastic Life, Wanting Someone

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