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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years. -- Walter Jon Williams
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together. -- Michael Steele
When readers close the covers on Running the Rift, I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth. -- Naomi Benaron
When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth. -- Naomi Benaron
I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave. -- Ernest Shackleton
I've tried Oculus Rift; I've played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a first-person shooter, you can see a tower in the distance. You can walk up to that tower and use your controller to look up. -- Ramez Naam
The rift between culture and pop-culture has never been greater. -- Dov Davidoff
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The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things. -- Henry David Thoreau
Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them. -- Marcus Aurelius
You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore. -- John Keats
Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment. -- Philip Yancey
It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between Charlie Parker and me. -- Dizzy Gillespie
Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on. -- Gerald Kersh
You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore. -- Bob Dylan
All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren. -- Charles Frazier
It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks -- Peter Fonda
We used to be so proud that our country offered far more economic opportunities than the feudal system in Great Britain, with its royal family, princesses and dukes. But social mobility in the UK is higher than in the US. Our social rift is as big as it was in the 1920s. -- Robert Reich
But I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to hold it open. Sometimes you just need to be someone else, someone who doesn't care about anything at all. I know I do. I want emptiness but I can't have it. -- Vanessa Veselka
It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but de-spangled gossamer threads hung on the bushes and the shrill little cries of unrest of the swallows skimming the green open park spaces of the park told of autumn and change. -- Flora Thompson
Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man does not stand still but perseveres in the face of adversity, nor does he remain untouched by the pain cause by absence. On the contrary, he recognizes himself in each cry, uttered or repressed, in the smallest rift, in the most pressing need. -- Elie Wiesel
Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists. -- Mustafa Akyol
If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise. -- Kate Christensen
We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other. -- Grandmaster Flash
It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks. -- Peter Fonda
All the Midkemia stories are part of a 'history of an imaginary place,' so I've always known the cycle covered five rift wars. I just got to the end after 30 books. So there was no particular inspiration, save it was time to finish the whole shebang. -- Raymond E. Feist
I don't have any rift with President Obama at all. I think that he is operating in an entirely different arena than I'm dealing in. I represent my constituents in the Fourth Congressional District. I'm looking out admittedly for much more narrow interests. I represent the fourth-poorest district. -- Gwen Moore
I wouldn't recommend people to go up and ride their road bikes in Kenya. Bikes are not meant to be on the roads. But the mountain biking is fantastic. You can go right up into the tea and coffee plantations up in the highlands. You can descend the great Rift Valley. -- Chris Froome
Load every rift with ore. -- John Keats
A distracted mind or absent heart creates a rift which, unless addressed, becomes a chasm separating you from each other. -- Paula Whidden
The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity. -- Jean Baudrillard
We've still got a long haul ahead of is and I don't want to damn her rift away with my first, second, and third impressions, as my character analyses are usually for shit. -- Megan McCafferty
Abstractionism exacerbated the problem but sustainability, if intelligently conceived, could heal the rift between garden, landscape and urban design. Absolute sustainability is not possible. But relative sustainability is a practical and desirable proposition. -- Tom Turner

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