Pearl S. Buck Quotes
All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Quotes to Explore
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.
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There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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I adapt my workouts to what my needs are.
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Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
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I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.
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With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
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Youth has no age.
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Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky. If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.
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Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we'd sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things.
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All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
