Months Quotes - Page 9

• I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the right background, and, instead of sitting back and waiting for him to reveal his other bits, I make them up. I decide how he thinks, how he's going to treat me, and, sure enough, every time I conclude that this time he's definitely my perfect man, and all of a sudden, well, not so suddenly perhaps, usually around six months after we've split up, I see that he wasn't the person I thought he was at all.

  Jane Green

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  Jane Green (2001). “Mr. Maybe”, p.18, Broadway Books

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• One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point.

  John Fund

  Dog, Blue, House

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• Politicians detest self-sufficient citizens. Politicians need to be needed. When we get socialized medicine, you will be completely dependent upon politicians for your medical care, as Canadians are today. That's why if you need an MRI in Canada, you have to wait three months - unless you pay certain kinds of homage to the right politicians.

  Neal Boortz

  Self, Medicine, Waiting

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• For the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions

  Lou Gerstner

  Listening, Firsts, Conclusion

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• But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance over the eye...(but) what do we do in our society, in our civilisation, to continue this process?

  Daniel Barenboim

  Pregnancy, Eye, Listening

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• I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Thinking, Views, Media

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• Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Book, Silence, Three

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• Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.

  Ian Botham

  Mother, Men, Law

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• I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Baseball, Doubt, Three

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• How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them; no question of mood and feeling; they have just to work at something, and when the evening comes, they have earned their wages, and they are free to rest and enjoy themselves. What an insane thing it is to make literature one's only means of support! When the most trivial accident may at any time prove fatal to one's power of work for weeks or months. No, that is the unpardonable sin! To make a trade of an art! I am rightly served for attempting such a brutal folly.

  George Gissing

  Art, Morning, Mean

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• Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

  Peter Singer

  Home, Army, Years

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• My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.

  Daniel Nathans

  Summer, Jobs, School

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• Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the ant-covered foul-smelling trees and bushes which cover the cliffs, the filth and noise of Camp 4 (the climbers' campground), and worst of all, the multitudes of tourists which abound during the weekends and summer months.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Summer, Weekend, Climbing

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• You and your friends could plan the trip of a lifetime in 6-18 months to visit the completed school, teeming with dozens or hundreds of students who greet you with smiles and thank you letters. You'll know it's your school because your names will be on the door.

  Tim Ferriss

  School, Doors, Names

  "The Karmic Capitalist: Should I Wait Until I’m Rich to Give Back?" by Tim Ferriss, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 9, 2007.

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• Once we played at the Fillmore opposite The Cream. Eric Clapton was there and he played his ass off that night ... backstage Michael Bloomfield introduced me to Eric, and Eric was so nice. He came up to me, put his arms around me and said "Barry, it's such a pleasure to meet you" ... I couldn't figure it out... then Michael told me that he had told Eric I had cancer and two months to live...

  Barry Goldberg

  Music, Nice, Cancer

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• Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

  Camille Paglia

  Fate, Faces, Abyss

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.38, Canongate Books

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• I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.

  Greg Walden

  Electricity, Rate, Raises

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• I had to change. I had to change was the thought that drove me in those months of planning. Not into a different person, but back to the person I used to be—strong and responsible, clear-eyed and driven, ethical and good. And the PCT would make me that way. There, I’d walk and think about my entire life. I’d find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Strong, Thinking, Different

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.55, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months I have been in the best form in quite a while.

  Shane Warne

  Two, Trying, Three

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• The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Book, Writing, Hands

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• You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!

  Salvador Dali

  Girl, Creativity, Boys

  Dali interviewed by Victor Bockris, 1974.

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• You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

  Ed Markey

  Car, Waiting, Six Months

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, May 5, 2005.

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• It's such a paradox for them to say, "Oh, my God, I've thrown away my life," and continue to do that for the last month of their life. I shake them, physically shake them, and say, "What about now? What about now?"

  Patch Adams

  Healing, Health, Lasts

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• For the third year in a row, the United States has set a record for winter warmth, federal scientists reported yesterday. With an average temperature of 38.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the three-month period of December 1999 through February 2000 was the warmest winter season in the last 105 years in the contiguous 48 states, the scientists said. That mark slightly surpassed the previous record of 37.8 degrees, set a year ago.

  William K. Stevens

  Winter, Average, Years

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• For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of the flesh and the resulting absence of desires. You will appreciate how full I am of this idea when I tell you that I expect it to work the regeneration of mankind. I advise you to change over to a natural way of life, with proper nourishment (wholemeal bread), and you will soon feel the benefit.

  Gustav Mahler

  Ideas, Appreciate, Desire

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