Whole Quotes - Page 17

• It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

  John Guare

  Hope, Yesterday, Littles

  John Guare (1978). “Landscape of the Body”, Grove/Atlantic

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• Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Insulting, Doe, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.94, Penguin

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• I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

  Stephanie Perkins

  Love, Years, Bleeding

  Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.215, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Friendship, Together, Rotten

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.119, Atlântico Press

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• When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal. Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.

  Rajneesh

  Being Alone, Circles, Eternal Love

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• There is really a whole new appreciation when you leave and then come back.

  Hunter Tylo

  Appreciation

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• Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Appreciation, Book, Writing

  "Talking with Jesse James Garrett". Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com.

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• A good way to work on alternate picking is to choose three or four notes, and work on those. Too often, players who are trying to improve their right hand dexterity get hung up by playing too many notes with the left hand.I hear a lot of players running whole scales from the sixth string to the first , and playing them really sloppy.Keeping it very basic-and using only a few notes-and playing slowly with perfect rhythm is a task in itself.

  Al Di Meola

  Running, Player, Hands

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• It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change the course of history. You never really know. But the whole thing is to work at the process of being in sync with the universe, so that everything will align at the proper time so that you can deliver that which is your life mission. And that's why we're here as individuals. And then there's our contribution to the collective. It makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

  Herbie Hancock

  Simple, Might, Musician

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• The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Break Up, Country, People

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• The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Lying, Errors

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.212, Shambhala Publications

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• Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Romantic, Two, Dating

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• Do you believe God's whole world runs by the laws of the few sciences we have been able to discover? Oh, no, Christine, there is more. But people are satisfied. They know so much, they think they know all. And that makes it easy for Nosferatu. That makes it easy for all the devils.

  Lincoln Maazel

  Running, Believe, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Tada Cuda". "Martin", www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Stars, Believe, Creative

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• Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires. Love imposes no demands. Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole." Love expands beyond the limits of two people. Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.

  Deepak Chopra

  Marriage, Soulmate, Attachment

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• At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Fate, Should Have

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The whole world says that my Way is great like nothing else. It is great because it is like nothing else. If it were like everything else, it would long ago have become insignificant.

  Laozi

  Long Ago, Taoism, World

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• Hold on to the great image, and the whole world follows, follows unharmed, content and completely at peace.

  Laozi

  Taoism, World, Whole World

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• The ancients said: Hulk to be whole.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Said

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• Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Successful, Artist

  George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

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• The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Writing, Mind, Moral

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

  Carl Jung

  Acceptance, Outlook On Life, Essence

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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• Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.

  Waylon Jennings

  Drug, Helping, Blame

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• The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.

  Lydia Millet

  Sweet, Grief, Heart

  Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.206, Soft Skull Press

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• There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Grief, Suffering, Sorrow

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.7, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

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