Pearl S. Buck Quotes
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
Quotes to Explore
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely.
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.
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To establish personal relationships with the people you work with is stupid, because you never know when the winds will change. I try not to get too close to people.
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Of course China is an important new market for Tod's, and of course we need to succeed commercially. But I believe the way to do that is not to aim to deliver results in the short term by thoughtless expansion, but instead to explain to the Chinese people what our brand is really about.
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Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
