Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) Quotes
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
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I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.
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I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
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No, I don't have a plan. Whatever happens happens. There's never a plan.
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it's where I'm from. I just get a warm feeling when I'm home.
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I'm really interested in kind of weird social situations and cliques, watching girls vying for attention, watching how the popularity thing happens. I've always thought too hard about everything.
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There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.
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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
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When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist.
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I know we got guys in here who can get it done, because it happens on some nights. But it doesn't happen in others. This has to start with me, because I am our top offensive player. If I can send the message about playing defense, then I'm pretty sure everyone else will follow.
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
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It happens. We're not robots. Just kind of get up and do it again.
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Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.
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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
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It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
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Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are at the core of this lovely and lyrical collection of poems. The weather changes, people come and go from cities and towns, babies are born, grow up and depart from their parents’ arms, but still, the countryside and its rituals sustain the people and creatures who know how to read the signs of the seasons. In these pages, Laura Grace Weldon shares those signs with us; her poems are the fruit of a wonderful harvest.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
