Jessamyn West Quotes
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.Jessamyn West
Quotes to Explore
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
Irving Babbitt -
I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
Jack Kilmer -
At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
J. G. Ballard -
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
Kanye West -
It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
Laura Wade -
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Irwin Shaw -
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Abraham Cowley -
I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind infects me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep my eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where dry desert ends, green grass grows.
Og Mandino -
Anjali: Oh, wow. I am tripping out that I actually get to work here! Being constantly surrounded by books! Bringing ideas, poems, and manifestoes to the world! How can you stand it?!Jezanna: That reminds me, Lois. The lube shipment just came in.
Alison Bechdel -
As I shall lie in the grave alone, so in fact I live alone.
Anton Chekhov
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Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.
Ben Saunders -
I don't like to talk about my personal life.
Javier Bardem -
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
Pericles -
It's the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central, and they've been good to me.
Daniel Tosh -
A court's assessment of an agency's compliance with statutory limits does not depend on whether the agency's policy is good or whether the agency's intentions are laudatory.
Brett Kavanaugh -
I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.
Paul Thomas Anderson
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Tundra is a huge, forever frozen wetland covering the entire coast of the Arctic Ocean.
Palmer Cox -
I feel good, and the way I determine it is through my workout. I work so hard in the offseason that if I'm able to do everything I have to, I figure I must be healthy.
Nomar Garciaparra -
Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut. Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut. And his reverend occiput. Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut., Grit your molars and do your dut., Gird up your l__ns, Smite h_p and th_gh, We'll all be Kansas By and by.
Ogden Nash -
Even on the drum level, it's all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills.
John Otto Limp Bizkit -
No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids.
Scott Stapp -
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West