Pearl S. Buck Quotes
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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I think I need security.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.
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We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise.
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I've never gone into an interview in my life and said that we can't talk about something.
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I had been walking in silence for so long,I had almost forgotten what my own voice sounded like.My knees were tired;my toes were beginning to ache.
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Black children, white children, Latino children. America is becoming more diverse, it's becoming more tolerant as a consequence there's more interactions between groups. There are going be tensions that arise.
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Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.
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Controversy is always a beautiful thing. I love controversy and I try to fan it as much as I can without having my husband's head pop off!
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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
