Catching Up Quotes

• One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Nice, Tennis, Joy

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• Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do.

  Heather King

  Children, Average, Laughing

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• The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Running, Dream

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• As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

  Lili Taylor

  Stories, Catching, Havens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

  Joni Mitchell

  Television, Hamburgers, Used

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• I'm a really big homebody. If I had my way, a typical Saturday night would be staying home, ordering in, watching a movie or catching up on some shows.

  Christine Taylor

  Home, Night, Way

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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  A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  Ovid

  Motivational, Running, Horse

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

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• My hard work finally catching up with perfect timing

  Future

  Hard Work, Perfect, Timing

  Song: Kno the Meaning, 2015

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• Chase after the truth like all hell.

  Clarence Darrow

  Truth, Honesty, Catching Fire

  The Sign Magazine, May 1938.

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• Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Running, Flow

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• And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

  Rachel Field

  Scandal, Way, Disregard

  Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”

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• Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us. So, just once in a while let us exhault the importance of ideas and information.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Revenge, Ideas, Goes On

  "Fictional character: Edward R. Murrow". "Good Night, and Good Luck", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.

  Gail Sheehy

  Thinking, Games, People

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• I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Family, Black And White, Phones

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• Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be. When you're behind, you have to spend your energy catching up.

  Robert Noyce

  Business, Innovation, Energy

  "The innovators: rediscovering America's creative energy" by James W. Botkin, Dan Dimancescu, Ray Stata, Harper & Row, (p. 165), 1984.

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• My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.

  Richard Griffiths

  Father, Lying, Body

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• ... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.

  Shere Hite

  Father, Democracy, Catching

  Shere Hite (2011). “The Shere Hite Reader: New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalism, and Private Life”, p.406, Seven Stories Press

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• While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the globe are huge and likely growing.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Country, Differences, World

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts: when all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Gay, Law

  Barack Obama's speech on the Supreme Court Ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2013.

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• I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life.

  Rex Smith

  Ideas, Long, Waiting

  "New again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2015.

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• So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

  Stephen King

  Memories, Fall, Eye

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.445, Simon and Schuster

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• Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.

  Douglas Adams

  Science, Mind, Impossible

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.683, Del Rey

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• There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but it's got a lot of catching up to do. And then there's the clock that's ticking towards a nuclear weaponry.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Iran, Two, Democracy

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• 8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.

  Sue Townsend

  Mother, Smoking, Debauchery

  Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

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