Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.
Quotes to Explore
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.
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Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.
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Damned indecision and cursed pride.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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What is all this juice and all this joy?
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Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, forr, and death. The lines are tense with the vulnerability of lovers, strangers, and travelers with no ticket home.
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Last Saturday morning, the day of the game the Big West tournament final against Long Beach State, a 78-70 victory, I get a call from my dad. My son's wife just had our first granddaughter back north in Walnut Creek, so as soon as the game ended, I had some pizza with the players and went to bed, and the next morning at 5:30, I drove back up to see them, had to go 101 because the Grapevine was closed, and then drove to Stockton for the selection show. I haven't had time to celebrate, but I'll be able to celebrate that every day.
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“He’s now like Rambo!” – on Tom Wood
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Far be it from me to suggest that geologists should be reckless in their drafts upon the bank of Time; but nothing whatever is gained, and very much is lost, by persistent niggardliness in this direction.
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The only limit to success is your own imagination.
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Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.
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I read The Hunger Games voraciously and was extremely annoyed when interrupted by such inconsequential things as 'Christmas dinner.' (God, Mom, did you not understand Katniss was being pursued by the mutts? You have several children, why does it always have to be about collecting the whole set all the time?)
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I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.
