Exit Quotes - Page 12

• Pentagon records show that at least 8,000 members of the all-volunteer U.S. Army have deserted since the Iraq war began. Hey, at least somebody has an exit strategy.

  Tina Fey

  War, Army, Iraq

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• What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Views, Focus

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn and dance on the fragments in hobnailed boots, but you are mistaken. It would be a genuine pleasure. By an odd coincidence I brought a pair of hobnailed boots with me!' So saying, and recognising a good exit line when he saw one, he strode out, and after an interval of tense meditation I followed him. (Spode to Wooster)

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Aunt, Thinking, House

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “Jeeves And The Tie That Binds”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Children, Mysterious, Remember

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• Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.

  Truman Capote

  Tunnels, Ends, Halls

  Truman Capote (2012). “The Grass Harp”, p.236, Vintage

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• If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy.

  Karen Hughes

  Goal, Troops, Strategy

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• As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first sentence, draw them in further with your second sentence and have them in a mild trance by the third. Then, being careful not to wake them, you carry them away up the back alley of your narrative and when they are hopelessly lost within the story, having surrendered themselves to it, you do them terrible violence with a softball bag and then lead them whimpering to the exit on the last page. Believe me, they'll thank you for it.

  Alan Moore

  Softball, Believe, Successful

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• Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at weddings. I couldn't help myself. In a dramatic gesture, I bolted the door and threw my body across it to prevent her exit. She understood.

  Erma Bombeck

  Doors, Knives, Body

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Cities, Relief, Vortex

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• I’m searching for some exit poll data from California. I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Data, California

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• Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Doors, Waiting, Care

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.179, A&C Black

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• I glance at the exit across the room. I want out. The bird in my chest is crashing up against its cage. I can feel the heavy thump, thump, thump of its feverish body inside and I open my mouth, not to speak, but to let the bird out so I can breathe.

  Han Nolan

  Bird, Mouths, Body

  Han Nolan (2010). “Crazy”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Come close now,' ordered Fenworth. 'Time for an exit. I think we'll whirl, Kale likes to whirl. Hold hands. Let's stay together, children. I want no one lost.

  Donita K. Paul

  Children, Thinking, Kale

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonSpell: A Novel”, p.303, WaterBrook

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• In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead of people running for the exit signs, they just push the button on their computer.

  Jeffrey Skilling

  Running, Business, Yelling

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• You can memorize your way through a labyrinth if it is simple enough and you have the time and urge to escape. But the learning is of no use for the next time when the exit will be differently placed.

  David Hawkins

  Education, Simple, Labyrinth

  David Hawkins (2007). “The Informed Vision: Essays on Learning and Human Nature”, p.174, Algora Publishing

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• Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Reading, Perspective, Inspired

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.233, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's supposed to. (46)

  Keith Ablow

  Hurt, Easy, Psychiatrist

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• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in ­pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  Florence Welch

  Running, Dream, People

  "The unstoppable rise of Florence Welch". Interview with John Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2010.

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• Boo," I said. He reacted as all mutts react when I confront them. He leapt from his chair and dove for the nearest exit, shaking in terror. In my dreams. He glanced at me and started looking for Clay. It never failed. Mutts only quaked when I appeared because it usually meant Clayton wasn't far behind. I was nothing but a harbinger of doom.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dream, Clay, Mutts

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.283, Vintage Canada

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• In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit , but as a limiting situation which they can transform.

  Paulo Freire

  Struggle, Reality, Order

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.

  Alan Moore

  Past, Train Of Thought, Finding Yourself

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Book by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.

  Sylvia Plath

  Wish, Wish You

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• Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.

  Nick Hornby

  Soul, Balance, Wish

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.86, Penguin

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• Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Lines, Pay, Firsts

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Business

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.83, Diversion Books

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