Samuel Beckett Quotes
All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.Samuel Beckett
Quotes to Explore
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
Barton Gellman -
When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
Maeve Binchy -
Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
Sally Pearson -
It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
Laini Taylor -
I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
Isaac Hayes -
Venus favors the bold.
Ovid
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I was very rebellious.
Katey Sagal -
By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
Adam Grant -
I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
Yoko Ono -
We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
Gary Johnson -
I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
Gary Busey -
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch Spinoza
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The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If a working mom or dad loses a job because of sickness, the family may slip into poverty.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
Barbara Jordan -
Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.
Taylor Negron -
I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
Rand Paul -
New York's definitely got my heart.
Caitriona Balfe -
Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.
Ed Koch
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I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.
Neil LaBute -
Ich werde im Himmel hören! (I will hear in heaven!)
Ludwig van Beethoven -
I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.
Jonathan Sacks -
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
Aristotle -
Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.
Parker Palmer -
All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.
Samuel Beckett