Famous Quotes about confidence

W.G. Sebald quote #37 from The Rings of Saturn

I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well something nebulous gauze-like through which everything one sees in a dream seems paradoxically much clearer. A pond becomes a lake a breeze becomes a storm a handful of dust is a desert a grain of sulphur in the blood is a volcanic inferno. What manner of theater is it in which we are at once playwright actor stage manager scene painter and audience
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Cormac McCarthy quote #173 from The Crossing

If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world unfold just so upon its course and those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer Where the dreamer and his dream
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Thomas Aquinas famous quote #218

Give us O Lord a steadfast heart which no unworthy affection may drag downwards give us an unconquered heart which no tribulation can wear out give us an upright heart which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon us also O Lord our God understanding to know you diligence to seek you wisdom to find you and a faithfulness that may finally embrace you through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Daniel Amory quote #113 from Minor Snobs

Look girls know when theyre cute he said. You dont have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to take the bar. She doesnt have a job. I was like How are you going to get a job there in this market And shes like Ill wink and Ill smile. Shes a pretty girl. Whether that works despite her poor grades is yet to be seen.
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