C.P. Cavafy Quotes
If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.
C.P. Cavafy
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When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.
Andy Rooney
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Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life.
Oprah Winfrey
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I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.
Yann Martel
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O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
Anne Boleyn
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There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.
M. Night Shyamalan
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There should be pluralism - the concept of many religions, many truths. But we must also be careful not to become nihilistic.
Dalai Lama
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Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.
Sarah Kay
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Be careful what you shoot at . . . most things in here don't react too well to bullets.
Sean Connery
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In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.
Sherman Alexie
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I enjoy tutoring. I just really enjoy the experience of teaching.
William Hung
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And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.
C.P. Cavafy