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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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.
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But simultaneously with the development of capitalist production the credit system also develops. The money-capital which the capitalist cannot as yet employ in his own business is employed by others, who pay him interest for its use.
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Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.
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With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.
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Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
