J. D. Salinger Quotes

I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me.

J. D. Salinger

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• I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Made

• Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Responsibility
  • Creativity

• But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Emotional

• In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Man
  • Mirror

• I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Work
  • Law
  • Lie

• I shop more than most women.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Women
  • More
  • Most

• The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Determination

• Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Why
  • Movies
  • Terrorism

• My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Friends
  • More
  • Just

• I'm not on Facebook, and I don't tweet, but I know plenty of people who love both.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Live
  • Me
  • Medical

• Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty- their power and privilege- to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Business
  • Power
  • Earth

• The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his Government, deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and friend to her foe.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Country
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth - double distilled.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Truth
  • Sympathy

• I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Job
  • Energy
  • Passion

• I was pretty obnoxious as a kid.

  

  Lorelei Linklater
  • Pretty

• I respect Conor McGregor a lot because this man changed everything in the UFC.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Respect

• I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Time
  • Career
  • Day

• We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

  

  Gerrit Smith
  • Judge
  • Slavery
  • Tell

• I lied to Julia, I didn't know what else to do because you - you make me feel..." I had to stop. Not because I didn't have words. I did. But I was afraid to say them. He looked at me, and I knew then I could love him. That if I let myself I would. "You make me feel too," he said, and held out one hand.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Love
  • Words
  • Stop

• I don't think the isolation of the American writer is a tradition; it's more that, geographically, he just is isolated, unless he happens to live in New York City. But I don't suppose there's a small town around the country that doesn't have a writer.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Live
  • Country
  • American

• The idea here, of course, is, you know, mathematics is the language of science, it's the way that we understand the natural world. And there's definitely been a push to sort of study advanced math and kind of reawaken the love of advanced math.

  

  Anya Kamenetz
  • Science
  • Natural
  • Mathematics

• I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me.

  

  J. D. Salinger