Pearl S. Buck Quotes

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Pearl S. Buck

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• I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Country

• I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Job
  • Write
  • Ever

• It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • American
  • Values

• I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.

  

  Jackson Brundage
  • Kind
  • Basketball
  • Pro

• I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Good
  • Think
  • Very

• Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Life
  • Better

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Pretty
  • Point
  • Materials

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Art
  • Best
  • Addiction

• I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Strong
  • Environment
  • New

• In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • You
  • Know
  • Fiction

• I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Future
  • Past

• I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Hit
  • Elephant
  • Bull

• Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Love
  • Story

• That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Great
  • Comedy

• We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.

  

  Olaf Stapledon
  • Law
  • Government
  • Aids

• Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.

  

  Adrien Brody
  • Gay
  • Establishment
  • Not Afraid

• Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Business
  • Man
  • Small

• If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

  

  James Monroe
  • People
  • History
  • Happy

• In several quarters in the 2000s, if you added up all the private savings of everyone in the United States, it was less than nothing. You can't sustain that as a driver of growth.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • Up
  • Growth

• Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
  • Growth