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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
Desmond Tutu

Sun, Order, Open

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
Virginia Woolf

Good, Quality, Permanent

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Augustine of Hippo

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
Cesar Chavez

Strength, Live, Despair

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
George Santayana

Experience, Seems, Lead

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.
Dolly Parton

Home, Eyes, Close

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
Samuel Richardson

Love, Through, Elephant

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.
Quentin Tarantino

Love, Fun, Live

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.
Leo Szilard

Good, Someone, Two

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
Jean-Michel Basquiat

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
Josephine Baker

Best, Strength, Prayer

I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.
Elton John

Free, Though, Choose

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
Edgar Degas

Far, Memory, Copy

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.
William Shatner

Computers, Put, Longer

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.
Morihei Ueshiba

Actually, Force, Attack

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Marie Curie

Good, Evil, Humanity

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
Fareed Zakaria

Money, Government, School

I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.
Paul Kane

Same, Film, Public

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Life, Learned, Reason

I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.
Gwen Stefani

School, Remember, Picture

Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started again when I was in my twenties. I really didn't progress since then, so the way I draw is the way I drew in sixth grade.
Demetri Martin

Again, Progress, Since

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Writing, Water, Ourselves

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.
Scott Adams

Words, Word, Hand

I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'
Scott Adams

Person, Sometimes, Sit

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
David Hockney

Put, Able, Means

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.
Drew Barrymore

Funny, Around, Her

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.
Marco Rubio

Remember, Afraid, Against

I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.
Daniel Radcliffe

Love, Art, Science

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
Bell Hooks

Fear, Earth, Heavenly

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
Zora Neale Hurston

Begins, Glamorous, Beating

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