James Branch Cabell Quotes
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
Quotes to Explore
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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We're all idealistic when young.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
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Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.
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I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
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There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
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Yankee Stadium is a natural venue for another lesson: You won't succeed all the time. Even Ruth, Gehrig, and DiMaggio failed most of time when they stepped to the plate. Finding the right path in life, more often than not, involves some missteps.
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Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
