I've Learned Quotes - Page 24

• I've learned that some memories surprise you and reveal a sharp edge just when you least expect it.

  Pittacus Lore

  Memories, Surprise, I've Learned

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• I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.

  Dan Brown

  Ideas, Mind, I've Learned

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.459, Random House

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• I'm not perfect, either. In the end, it's only God's judgement that matters, and I've learned enough to know that no one can presume to know the will of God.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Perfect, Judgement, Matter

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• The problem with time, I've learned, whether it's those first two weeks I got to spend with you, or the final two months I got to spend with him, eventually time always runs out. I have no idea where you are out there in the world, John. But I understand that I lost the right to know these things long ago. No matter how many years go by, I know one thing to be as true as ever was - I'll see you soon then.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Running, Long Ago, Years

  "Fictional character: Savannah Curtis". "Dear John", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline and after a number of books I've learned that the more time I spend on the outline the easier the book is to write. And if I cheat on the outline I get in trouble with the book.

  John Grisham

  Book, Writing, Numbers

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• Until Gettysburg," she continued, "I was working for the wrong reasons. At first it was to prove myself worthy in someone's eyes. Later it was out of guilt, trying to find atonement in God's eyes. But atonement is free, never earned. And I've learned that the only person I need to please with my life is God.

  Lynn Austin

  Eye, Guilt, Trying

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• As long as you're around, your life is too. So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who sorround you, you have to do so equally with your life, because it's yours, it's you, and it's always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can't do it. I gave up on my life for a while, but what I've learned is that even when that happens and especially when that happens, life never gives up on you.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Cheer, Children, Giving Up

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• In keeping with his cryptic nature, all your Story Weaver said was 'The horses know where to go.' It's certainly not a military strategy I would use, but I've learned that the south uses its own strategy. And, strangely enough, it works.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Horse, Military, Stories

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Magic Study”, p.284, Harlequin

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• I've learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, I've Learned, Made

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• I've learned that almost anyone will help if you ask for it.

  Wendy Mass

  Helping, I've Learned, Asks

  Wendy Mass (2011). “13 Gifts”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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• I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you'll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.

  Wendy Mass

  Second Chance, Long, Giving

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• I've been going a long time now along the way I've learned some things. You have to make the good times yourself take the little times and make them into big times and save the times that are all right for the ones that aren't so good.

  Rod McKuen

  Long, Littles, Way

  Rod McKuen (1970). “Listen to the Warm”

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• One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Chance, Sometimes, Life Is

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• If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

  Michael Morpurgo

  I've Learned, This Life, Ifs

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• Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

  John Lennon

  I've Learned, Things I've Learned, One Thing

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• Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Grateful, Self, Survival

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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• You speak what you believe, and you believe you’re doomed. If there’s one thing I’ve learned throughout the years, it’s that what you believe is the impetus for your entire life.

  Gena Showalter

  Believe, Years, Speak

  Gena Showalter (2013). “Beauty Awakened”, p.53, HQN Books

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• I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  I've Learned, Children Book, Childrens Book

  Madeleine L’Engle (2014). “A Wrinklein Time Quintet”, p.9, Obelix Books

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• I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.

  Charles Bukowski

  Feel Good, Luck, Red

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• I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin

  Ohtaka Shinobu

  Revenge, War, Sorrow

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• I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But civilization has rules, and I've learned them well -- never be helpless, never be sick, never be poor.

  Christina Dodd

  Thinking, Civilization, Differences

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• What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

  James Dyson

  Inspirational, Running, Hurt

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• I'm an actress, I live in L.A., I work in Hollywood. But I've learned that if you're too skinny, they'll say something about it. If you're not skinny enough, they'll say something about it. I just try to feel good in my own skin as much as I can.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Beauty, Feel Good, Skins

  "Cover Model: Jennifer Love Hewitt!". Interview with Claire Trageser, womensrunning.competitor.com. September 13, 2013.

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• I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

  Jack Welch

  Inspiring, Teacher, Motivation

  Jack Welch, John A. Byrne (2003). “Jack: Straight from the Gut”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to others in due course, I'll be given-or not given-the opportunity of benefiting from what I've learned. In any case, I'll have enjoyed the inestimable advantage of doing things I like doing and following my own inclinations.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Happiness, Opportunity, Mind

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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