Reserves Quotes - Page 19

• The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but actually it’s the most natural way to approach any situation. When you hold some part of yourself in reserve you deny it exposure to life; you repress its energy and keep it form understanding what it needs to know.

  Deepak Chopra

  Doors, Understanding, Identity

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• There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought that I was to live and die in Africa, had pointed out to Denys as my future burial-place. In the evening, while we sat and looked at the hills from my house, he remarked that then he would like to be buried there himself as well. Since then, sometimes when we drove out in the hills, Denys had said: "Let us drive as far as our graves.

  Isak Dinesen

  Games, House, Firsts

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.

  John Green

  Father, Hate, Passion

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.22, Penguin

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• Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Creativity, Emotional

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• Yet each country had items that the other needed. The Arridi had reserves of red gold and iron in their deserts that the Toscans required to finance and equip their large armies. Even more important, Toscans had become inordinately fond of kafay, the rich coffee grown by the Arridi.

  John Flanagan

  Country, Coffee, Army

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• Most of those men don’t want to sleep with you,” he said in blunt rebuttal. “I reserve the right to introduce my fist to the faces of the ones who do.

  Nalini Singh

  Sleep, Men, Fists

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Angels' Flight: A Guild Hunter Collection”, p.153, Penguin

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• There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Women, Safety

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.172

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• Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

  John Foster Dulles

  Spiritual, Peace, War

  John Foster Dulles (1957). “War Or Peace”

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• Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

  Mark Twain

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.491, Courier Corporation

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• God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

  Mark Twain

  God, Hands, Vengeance

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

  Oscar Wilde

  Broken Heart, Wise, Lost Love

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• Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

  Susan Cain

  Shyness, Breeding, Mark

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.25, Broadway Books

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• It's like he has emotional amnesia... I think you have to accept that the person you knew isn't there at the moment. I was witness to how much he loved you. I have the photos. This isn't the person we knew. I don't recognize this person. He's shed his skin." Her heart is broken too. She has to say the thing that will give me back my life. She draws on every reserve. I see how much it hurts her and it hurts me too. I came from her joy and her pain, I lived in it and I live in it now.

  Emma Forrest

  Hurt, Pain, Heart

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• The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand named things in the Tao Te Ching’s universe and then ten thousand more. Her love was full-throated and all-encompassing and unadorned. Every day she blew through her entire reserve.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Tao Te Ching, Thousand, Ten

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.19, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

  Andre Gide

  Action, Pleasure, Natural

  ANDRE GIDE (1958). “THE IMMORALIST”

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• Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.

  Theophile Gautier

  Passion, Heart, Men

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• …often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Overcoming, Little Women, Hard

  Louisa May Alcott (2001). “Little Women”, p.387, Broadview Press

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• After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.

  Jasper Fforde

  Summer, Reading, Healing

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.51, Penguin

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• When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

  Abdul Kalam

  Moving, Resilience, Needs

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• The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer.

  Ron Wyden

  Oil, Administration, Helping

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• For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.

  Ron Wyden

  Men, Storm, Shields

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• Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

  Thornton Wilder

  Nature, Children, Scary

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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• I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

  Olivia Wilde

  Stress, Passion, Kids

  "Olivia Wilde Tells Us Her Dos and Don'ts of Turning 30". www.glamour.com. August 5, 2013.

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• We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

  Mitt Romney

  Volunteer, Giving, Admiration And Respect

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• Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.

  Mitt Romney

  Success, Spiritual, Giving

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