Lifelong Quotes - Page 9

• Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Lust, Connections, Guarantees

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• I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I want you to look at me the way you look at him, knowing the worst. I want you to trust me, even when your brain tells you you shouldn't, I want you to ignore common sense and your lifelong need to protect yourself. I want you to give yourself to me, body and soul.

  Anne Stuart

  Father, Acceptance, Knowing

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• I hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every single Thanksgiving I politely declined to include it on my plate.

  John Green

  Mom, Favorite Foods, Sauce

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Penguin

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• It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers.

  Ilona Andrews

  Hats, Looks, Boots

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.103, Penguin

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• Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest was ruined. This was his way of controlling the situation, his lifelong strategy for always coming out ahead. Now, when reality looked more dire than any of his fatalisitic predictions, he had no choice but to turn tail and charge in the opposite direction.

  Max Brooks

  Rain, Reality, Years

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.11, Broadway Books

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• His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner desire. Insofar as it is possible to divide people into categories, the surest criterion is the deep-seated desires that orient them to one or another lifelong activity. Every Frenchman is different. But all the actors the world over are similar.

  Milan Kundera

  Medicine, People, Desire

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• In these fast and fickle times, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the last page of The Great Gatsby; the near-religious harmonies of the Beach Boys’ “California Girls”; and the lifelong friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

  Sarah Vowell

  Girl, Beach, Religious

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Differences, Littles

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

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• Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

  Sean Covey

  Pursuit, Persons, Better Off

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Passion, Night, Years

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• All writers - all beings - are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

  Janet Frame

  Writing, Journey, Land

  Janet Frame (2001). “An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

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• The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Falling In Love, Sight, Growth

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.3, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for the exam and understand that this is only the tip of some shadowy cataclysm or lifelong mistake.

  Alice Munro

  Dream, Mistake, Finding Yourself

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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• Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the subway, or who do not want other people to see how they are amusing themselves, or who have storage and clutter issues, but they are useless for people who are engaged in an intense, lifelong love affair with books. Books that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on.

  Joe Queenan

  Love, Book, Smell

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• One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only surrender to the will of God as I know what that will is.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Maturity, Years, Accomplishment

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• There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Adventure, Curiosity, Care

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• ... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us extraordinary

  Dorothy Allison

  Lying, Self, Hatred

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Eye, Moon, Feet

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2016). “Tarzan of the Apes: free audiobook included”, p.48, Wizio Publishing

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• I got a washed out version of Mom’s curls and a better copy of Dad’s blue eyes, The rest of me, I guess, is up for grabs. Except maybe Gran’s nose, but she could have been trying to make me feel better. I’m no prize. Most girls go through a gawky stage, but I’m beginning to think mine will be a lifelong thing. It doesn’t bother me too much. Better to be strong than pretty and useless. I’ll take a plain girl with her head screwed on right over a cheerleader any day.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Girl, Mom, Strong

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• The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

  Glenn Gould

  Art, Purpose, Wonder

  Commencement address at York University, Toronto, Canada, 6 Nov. 1982

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• Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.

  Bret Lott

  Writing, Quests, Eccentric

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• The struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. And besides, a difficult life brings you to the core of yourself, where you learn what justice is and how it has to be fought for.

  Paul Monette

  Struggle, Gay, Justice

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• Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

  Rick Bayan

  Math, Mph, Two

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• I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Thinking, Special

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