Dump Quotes - Page 9

• I think some of the most celebrated moments in human achievement should be those times when everything is going against a person and they are down in the dumps but they simply choose to get up. That's real greatness!

  Ryan Hall

  Running, Real, Greatness

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• What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth a toxic waste dump.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Toxic Waste, People

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• You know I was just taking a dump one day, and then as I sat there I realized, I really do deserve better.

  Zach Braff

  Deserve Better, One Day, Sat

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• The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated... He is set aside in one of the technical and secret zones (hospitals, prisons, refuse dumps) which relieve the living of everything that might hinder the chain of production and consumption, and which repair and select what can be sent back up to the surface of progress.

  Michel de Certeau

  Men, Sick, Secret

  "Arts de Faire".

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• But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk of the edge of their own lives: they want someone to know how they got there. Maybe they want to know that when they dissolve into earth and water, that last fragment will be saved, held in some corner of someone's mind; or maybe all they want is a chance to dump it pulsing and bloody into someone else's hands, so it won't weigh them down on the journey. They want to leave their stories behind. No one in all the world knows that better than I do.

  Tana French

  Journey, Hands, People

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• I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.

  Sophie Thompson

  Kings, Reading, Son

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• Metaphorically, the body becomes a machine to be driven or a garbage dump to be avoided. At the same time, the magnificent Mother in whose womb we live is mindlessly poisoned and raped. Surely, our insane denial has to be perceived and acted upon.

  Marion Woodman

  Mother, Insane, Machines

  "Dancing in the Flames". Book by Marion Woodman, 1996.

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• Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby – you’re just lickin’ at the empty tin can, trying to get more nutrition out of it. And if you’re not careful, that can’s gonna get stuck on your snout forever and make your life miserable. So drop it.” “But I love him.” “So love him.” “But I miss him.” “So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dog, Baby, Real

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.158, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

  John Stuart Mill

  Intellectual, Sides, Debate

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• I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Regret, Real

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• Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Writing, Islands

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.

  Stephen King

  Encouraging, Islands, Sky

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• I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.

  Alain de Botton

  Sports, Real, School

  "Office affairs" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2009.

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• Mr. Market does not always price stocks the way an appraiser or a private buyer would value a business. Instead, when stocks are going up, he happily pays more than their objective value; and, when they are going down, he is desperate to dump them for less than their true worth.

  Benjamin Graham

  Doe, Investing, Pay

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• There's absolutely no way you can go barreling into second and dump a guy on a double play, like you should do, when you've been fraternizing with him before a game.

  Frank Robinson

  Games, Play, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side...and had them start off screaming, "BOO!

  Jim Butcher

  Army, Guy, Bumps

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story”, p.351, Penguin

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• Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've had a few bad encounters with some of its members. ... Intimacy's a greater goal to seek. ...That true knowledge of intimacy within our own species will allow us to pass it along to interspecies relations.

  Cesar Millan

  Years, Goal, Wife

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• Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Memorable, Men

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• Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

  Voltaire

  History, Crime, Tableau

  L'Ingenu ch. 10 (1767) See Gibbon 4

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• The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another’s lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly.

  Sebastian Junger

  Girlfriend, Commitment, Army

  "Failing the Voight-Kampff" by Dylan Ratigan, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2013.

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• Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?

  J. D. Salinger

  Death, Hope, Flower

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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