Jami Attenberg Quotes
When we are young - or even 32 - we often say 'yes' to everything because we're worried that we won't know what we'll like if we don't try it.Jami Attenberg
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Ovid -
My biggest hero was Roman Gabriel, who was the QB of the Rams, and Roger Staubach. Those were the two guys I tired to emulate when I was little.
Warren Moon -
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
Edmund White -
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp -
When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
Adam Hasner -
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Immanuel Kant
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
Barney Ross -
I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
Patina Miller -
I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.
Patrick Ness -
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao Tzu -
I will raise a book to Brian Thomsen.
Ed Greenwood -
Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.
Malcolm X
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The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.
Ian Hacking -
I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.
Zoe Foster Blake -
Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.
Taraji P. Henson -
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
Sallust -
I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.
Garry Shandling -
A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon from one to five ruined for him already.
Lin Yutang
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It's just so unfortunate that, as we get adjusted to this global economy, that the U.S. is even thinking about building walls.
Pete Gallego -
Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Yoga reduced my stress and bodily tension. It allowed me to bring my body back into balance, to emerge from my fertility struggle with my sense of self esteem and self worth intact, and to forge a stronger bond with my husband.
Brenda Strong -
We're commanded by God to worship God with our mind.
Eric Metaxas -
When we are young - or even 32 - we often say 'yes' to everything because we're worried that we won't know what we'll like if we don't try it.
Jami Attenberg