Pearl S. Buck Quotes
Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
Pearl S. Buck
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
Malorie Blackman
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
Fernando Botero
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
Mac Thornberry
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
Edmund Hillary
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
Karen Handel
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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There's no formula.
Joanne Rowling
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
Faye Dunaway
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Irwin Shaw
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
Natalie Maines
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It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.
Tea Leoni
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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
Eckhart Tolle
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All my life I have preserved in the depths of my heart a live faith in my Creator, the Defender of the World, in His Sanctifying Grace and in the expiatory sacrifice of Christ our Saviour, but never have I agreed that true religion demands outward manifestations.
Valery Bryusov
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I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
Gary Oldman
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You've got to be pretty mean to pick up on women who only know you from television and then cast them aside.
David Eigenberg
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.
P. J. Plauger
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Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
Pearl S. Buck
