Staying Quotes - Page 32

• I'd been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I'd ever known, for three days under a phony name, shooting heroin. We made love in the bed, ate steaks at the restaurant, shot up in the john, puked, cried, accused one another, begged of one another, forgave, promised, and carried one another to heaven.

  Denis Johnson

  Beautiful, Girlfriend, Holiday

  "Jesus' Son". Book by Denis Johnson, December 1992.

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• I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Education, Motivation, Fear

  "Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine". Book by Phillipe Mather, p. 46, 2013.

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• The Clique: The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.

  Lisi Harrison

  Clique, Harder

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• Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

  Dean Koontz

  Running, Perseverance, Feet

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.211, Bantam

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• Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Art, Limitation

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.171, Macmillan

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• But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe shelter. I believe that serving the best ends of humanity means getting out in the middle of it just as it is, not staying home writing checks and thinking hopeful thoughts. The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are. And you're damned right that's idealistic. No apology. When idealism goes into the trash as junk mail, we're finished.

  Robert Fulghum

  Distance, Believe, Mean

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.173, Ivy Books

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• The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more than a week, or a baby born in a barn without proper medical supervision, these stories often feature miracles. Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see, and this holiday story features any number of miracles, depending on your point of view.

  Daniel Handler

  Baby, Holiday, Views

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• The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Leaving, Impossible

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.

  Frank Peretti

  Nice, Live Life, Forever

  Frank E. Peretti (2011). “Monster”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight

  Demi Lovato

  Tonight

  Song: La-la Land Machine, Album: Don't Forget, 2008

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• Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?

  Noel Coward

  Eye, Power, People

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• This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.

  Miranda July

  Running, Strong, Home

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• My Carmen," I said (I used to call her that sometimes) "we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as you get out of bed." "... Because, really," I continued, "there is no point in staying here." "There is no point in staying anywhere," said Lolita.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Towns, Bed, Sometimes

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.134, Hamilton Books

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• Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

  Orson Scott Card

  Hands, Credit, Conversation

  "Children of the Mind". Book by Orson Scott Card, August, 1996.

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• If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall - if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then the good life shall be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold you back.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Good Life, Men, Fearless

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• The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Enemy, Alive, Sake

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Frank Cameron, Don Dombowsky (2008). “Political writings of Friedrich Nietzsche: an edited anthology”, Palgrave MacMillan

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• What makes the strength of a soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of signals, it's the strength he's able to concentrate within himself, by staying centered.

  Muriel Barbery

  Guy, Soldier, Trying

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, 2006.

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• It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

  George Orwell

  Heritage, Heard, Sane

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company: Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Littles, Way

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.262, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

  Henry Cloud

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  FaceBook post by Henry Cloud from Dec 22, 2016

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• Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Clothes, House

  Oscar Wilde “The Importance of Being Earnest”, BoD - Books on Demand

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• Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

  Emily Dickinson

  Nature, Home, Gardening

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.324 (first published 1864).

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• The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Running, Divorce, Doors

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We're staying for the moment. ut if you do anything i find the least bit suspicious, I'll kill you. Fair Warning?

  Nancy Holder

  Warning, Moments, Fairs

  Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguié (2010). “Wicked 2: Legacy & Spellbound”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it, twisting it, molding it beyond recognition. India, she had found out, was a place of political intrigue and economic corruption, a place occupied by real people with their incessantly human needs, desires, ambitions, and aspirations, and not the exotic, spiritual, mysterious entity that was a creation of the Western imagination.

  Thrity Umrigar

  Spiritual, Real, Ambition

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