Adages Quotes - Page 9

• Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.

  Jackson Browne

  Laughter, Disappointment, Glasses

  Song: The Only Child, Album: The Pretender

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• Keep in mind, when you hit rock bottom, there ain't nowhere to go but up, baby.

  Ludacris

  Baby, Rocks, Mind

  Song: Hopeless, Album: The Red Light District

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• Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

  Ben Harper

  Battle, Stories, Moral

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• There's an old adage that for every second too fast per mile in the first half of the race, you'll run at least 2 seconds slower at the end.

  Jeff Galloway

  Running, Race, Half

  Jeff Galloway (1984). “Galloway's Book on Running”

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• There's an old adage in writing: 'Don't tell, but show.' Writing is not psychology. We do not talk 'about' feelings. Instead the writer feels and through her words awakens those feelings in the reader. The writer takes the reader's hand and guides him through the valley of sorrow and joy without ever having to mention those words.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Hands, Joy

  Natalie Goldberg (1998). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, Shambhala Publications

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• Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Kings, Men, Rich

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• Pretty girls come a dime a dozen, try to find one who's gonna give you true loving.

  Smokey Robinson

  Girl, Giving, Trying

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• You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

  Bill Gross

  Butterfly, Chasing Butterflies, Rose

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• The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Brain, Facts, Fiction

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• This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it - many were - it's that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Christian, Doors, Locks

  John Jeremiah Sullivan (2011). “Pulphead: Essays”, p.30, Macmillan

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• It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility.

  Hannah Arendt

  Secret, Victory, Events

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On violence”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• You'll never be greater than yourself.

  Bob Dylan

  Greater

  Song: High Water For Charlie Patton, Album: Love And Theft

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• Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business.

  Clara Barton

  Thinking, Long Ago, Principles

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• Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.

  Adam Carolla

  Jobs, Believe, Doors

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• The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.

  Kerry Stokes

  Inspirational, Business, Educational

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• Sartre is one example of someone who does just this. Every text is, after all, a human document and whatever Kierkegaard thought about God was clearly a matter of human thought that can, in principle, be retrieved and interpreted by other human beings. A phenomenological approach to religion must, it seems to me, adopt the old adage: nothing human is alien to me.

  George Pattison

  Principles, Example, Doe

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Forget the adage buy low and sell high.

  William O'Neil

  Forget, Lows, Sells

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• There's the old saying that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. There are few better places to apply that adage than the drug war. It's time to end it. It's time to restore peace and harmony to Latin America and the United States. It's time to end the failed war on drugs. It's time to legalize drugs.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Latin, War, America

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• The adage that you are either gay or straight or you are lying. Well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist

  Clive Davis

  Lying, Gay, Doe

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• The adage 'a family that prays together, stays together' is so true.

  Niecy Nash

  Together, Praying

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• There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

  Beryl Markham

  Fun, Age, Goldfish

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

  Milan Kundera

  Life, Might, Unbearable Lightness Of Being

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• Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making

  Reba McEntire

  Love, Mistake, Mean

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• If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself

  Bob Dylan

  Needs, Trust Yourself, Ifs

  Song: Trust Yourself, Album: Empire Burlesque, 1985

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• It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.

  Peter Gabriel

  Naked, Alive, Uncertainty

  Song: That Voice Again, Album: So

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