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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In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.
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I approached work very seriously. I never went out. I couldn't fathom people who could go out to clubs... But I definitely went through a time where I was just terrified and exhausted and I didn't really understand. Hollywood... It just got to be too much for me.
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Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.
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Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
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Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.
