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Recovered. Had my personality crossed over that border, whatever and wherever it was, to resume life within the confines of normal? Had I stopped arguing with my personality and learned to straddle the line between sane and insane? -- Susanna Kaysen
Character is much easier kept than recovered. -- Thomas Paine
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors. -- Henry David Thoreau
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. -- Bono
I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you. -- Steven Van Zandt
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. -- Henry A. Kissinger
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered. -- Dorothy Thompson
American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001. -- Russell Baker
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. -- Margery Allingham
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with. -- Giacomo Casanova
I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered. -- M. Night Shyamalan
In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years. -- Wim Wenders
We know from the material that was recovered from the bin Laden compound that bin Laden was looking at the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as an opportunity to strike yet again at the U.S. homeland. -- John O. Brennan
Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of philosophy's pure essence, but the idea that philosophy is mixed up with everything else. -- Julian Baggini
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths. -- Hilary Mantel
I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street. -- Max Muller
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. -- George Eliot
The Thames could be thought of as England's longest archaeological site, and no fewer than 90,000 objects recovered from its foreshore are in the collection of the Museum of London, whose 30-year relationship with London mudlarks is both committed and highly regulated. -- Jean Hanff Korelitz
Eating disorders are shrouded in secrecy, and there are so many things I felt very ashamed of that I could never talk about. Even though I have fully recovered, there were still things that I needed to go through again and work through. -- Portia de Rossi
After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals. -- Tamora Pierce
The new book is a result of my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee Swagger novel,' and it takes Bob to Japan in search of the sword his father recovered on Iwo that has gone missing under extremely violent circumstances. -- Stephen Hunter
Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care. -- Jenny McCarthy
I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness. -- Keanu Reeves
Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.' -- Eliot Spitzer
Could have recovered greenness? -- George Herbert
I've lost audiences, I've recovered them. -- Carlos Fuentes
For tyme y-lost may not recovered be. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
For tyme ylost may nought recovered be. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being. -- Howard Kurtz
A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered -- Thomas Hughes
Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939 -- Jimmy Doolittle
I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version. -- Lionel Blue
More people deserted our party and we have never recovered. -- Denis Thatcher
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered. -- Charley Reese
Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart could have recovered greenness? -- George Herbert
Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Shane Watson seems to have recovered very well from his hamstring injury. -- Andrew Symonds
The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know. -- Paulo Coelho
I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic. -- Gene Weingarten
In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere. -- Erik Larson
Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered. -- Henri Poincare
Doctors said 'go home and enjoy what little is left of your life'. He recovered. -- Richard M. Schulze
You get thrown off balance out there. And I never recovered. Well, I haven't recovered yet. -- Rory McIlroy
People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support. -- Robert Breault
Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered. -- Leo Tolstoy
Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered. -- Nora Roberts
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness. -- Jane Austen
As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly. -- Victor Hugo
Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. -- Charles Dickens
Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities. -- Charles Baudelaire
The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history. -- Winston Churchill
One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career. -- Mercedes McCambridge
That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion. -- Marguerite Duras
Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries. -- Geoff Hoon
What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway. -- Mikhail Khodorkovsky
I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from. -- Max Brooks
The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered. -- Jared Diamond
My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life. -- Elyn Saks
My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life. -- Elyn Saks
God still hasn't recovered from the time that Satan doubted him....all God wants is someone to believe in him...God needs people to believe in him. -- Mike Murdock
Zidane is probably the best player there has been in the past 20 years ... France have recovered the best Zidane and they have progressively grown throughout this tournament. -- Zinedine Zidane
After waiting four long years since the Lost CHIC Tapes were recovered, I'm finally putting out our first record. I'm like a child waiting for Christmas morning. -- Nile Rodgers
In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's! -- Patsy Cline
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I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman. -- Peter Scolari
It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
He recovered quickly, reaching out to touch a few outstretched hands, melting the front row of girls like one long stick of butter as he moved closer toward me. -- Emme Rollins
I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely. -- Bill Pullman
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down. -- Bernard Malamud
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered--sometimes it seemed to take forever--went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down. -- Bernard Malamud
A good friend will help you to discover the potentials you haven't uncovered. A bad friend will help you to cover up the potentials you have already recovered. Make your choice! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait. -- Alice Hoffman
I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored. -- Jonathan Stroud
Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered. -- Bentley Little
The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects. -- James Lind
It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness. -- Walter Raleigh
Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over. -- Charles Caleb Colton
One of the main point of contention is whether or not Keith Scott was in possession of a gun. We still don`t know. Police say he did have a gun. The gun was recovered. -- Chris Hayes
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Having recovered from an inexplicable moment of weakness Claire was on the defensive, ready to bite. I had the impression that she was now looking for a chance to demonstrate her strength, or her hard-heartedness. -- Jean De Berg
Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered. -- Ambrose Bierce

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