Mates Quotes - Page 16

• I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.

  Diane Lane

  Romantic Love, Goal, Sometimes

  "Gorgeous At Any Age". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 31, 2008.

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• Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time. It's sad, but it's life.

  Cecelia Ahern

  People, Soul, Periods

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “PS, I love you”

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• To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.

  Barbara Hurd

  Blessing, Ideas, Luxury

  Barbara Hurd (2003). “Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm also a sex demon. I didn't go blind when I took a mate

  Larissa Ione

  Sex, Blind, Demon

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• From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Daughter, Integrity, Son

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• Many of you have asked why it's taken me so long to select a running mate. I have no intention of reaching into the political grab bag and grabbing any man to be my running mate. I'm going to reach in and grab a woman!

  Pat Paulsen

  Running, Taken, Men

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• You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wife, Dollars, Trustworthy

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• I look to nature because I think the animals are smarter than we are. Animals mate; humans date. There's no dating in the animal kingdom. No dinner, no movie - just a quick sniff, 'Alright, let's go.'

  Adam Ferrara

  Funny, Humor, Animal

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• As rich as you think some of us are, for every $18.99 CD you buy, the artist usually sees a toonie or so. Pay your producer out of that. Then your manager. Then split it five ways among your band mates. Now don't act surprised when you see the drummer of a platinum-selling Canadian rock band behind the drive- thru window at Tim Hortons

  Steven Page

  Artist, Thinking, Rocks

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• In those long, lonely miles you put in during the off-season, and in those knife-in-the-gut repetitions and hill repeats that buckly your knees - at that moment in almost every race when you ask yourself how much you're willing to hurt to catch one more runner - you can draw strength and inspiration from your running mates.

  Don Kardong

  Running, Lonely, Hurt

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• When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

  Zig Ziglar

  Jobs, Children, Stress

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• We prefer to find mates who are roughly as attractive as we are, which means they are more likely to stay and not look for a better offer.

  Allan Pease

  Mean, Looks, Attractive

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• See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal.

  Steve Irwin

  Dad, Hero, Jacques Cousteau

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• I love listening to music with my mate. We don't do it often, but when we do we'll just sit there and lose our heads in it. Sooner or later he'll start saying something to the effect of "Hey, Thom, can you put in something else now?" but I'll just nod coldly and respond "not just yet". But after awhile, I'll finally budge. And that's when I crack a big smile and take out The Bends and put in Kid A. My friend just sighs and leaves the room, and I can't blame him. He's not ready for that leap yet.

  Thom Yorke

  Kids, Listening, Cracks

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• The complaints which anyone voices against his mate indicate exactly the qualities which stimulated attraction before marriage.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Voice, Quality, Before Marriage

  Rudolf Dreikurs (2013). “The Challenge of Marriage”, p.80, Taylor & Francis

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• Scholes was probably the best English midfielder since Bobby Charlton. He was such a brilliant long passer that he could choose a hair on the head of any team-mate answering the call of nature at our training ground. Gary Neville once thought he had found refuge in a bush, but Scholesy found him from 40 yeards. He inflicted a similar long-range missile strike, once, on Peter Schmeichel, and was chased round the training ground for his impertinence. Scholesy would have made a first class-sniper.

  Alex Ferguson

  Team, Class, Hair

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• Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, "I want only you"

  Martin Luther

  Fire, Want, Married

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• Besides, the only thing you can control in life is your wardrobe. Cars break down when you least expect it. Boats eat money and gas. Your house, your mate, your friends, your family, even your career, are beyond your control. However, you're in total command of what you put on your back each morning.

  Margo Kaufman

  Morning, Careers, House

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• It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silly, Blessing, Manage

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• It was Harry Patch, who was the last living World War I veteran; and by veteran I mean someone who actually fought in the war, he didn't just happen to be in the army at that time, in the Great War. And when the Iraq War started, he was interviewed, and they said, well what do you think of this? And he said, in a very sad voice, "Well, that's why my mates died. We thought we were going to end all that sort of thing."

  Jacqueline Winspear

  War, Mean, Army

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Never resign. There's always a chance your opponent may drop dead before he mates you.

  Israel Albert Horowitz

  May, Opponents, Chance

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• There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

  Francis Bacon

  Revenge, Fear, Grief

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

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• And then there was my mate who'd just been fitted with a brand new hearing aid. "It's the best in the world", he said. "What type is it?", I asked and he said "ten past twelve".

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Humor, Past

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• A man says to his mate: "My wife is a twin." His mate says, "How do you tell them apart?" The man says: "Her brother has a beard."

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Brother, Humor

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• My Irish mate told me, if you file down the edges of a 50 pence piece, you can use it as a 10p.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Use

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