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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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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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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Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.
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I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?
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I realize that I am typically vulnerable only when and where and how much it suits me. I can choose my writer words and even go back and edit.
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There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third category.
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Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
