Thomas Dewar Quotes
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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.
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I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.
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The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?
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A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.
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Don't stay in a bad situation - whether it is a relationship or a job - out of fear of failure. It's not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.
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That's l'amour: we willingly walk into the future blindfolded.
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must not walk in fear of one another. We must not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.
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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quack like a duck, then it just may be a duck.
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We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.
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I flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk.
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Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.
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I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.
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You could walk out of the house, but you always returned home.
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I would walk until I had walked all the life out of me, and when I fell, I would die that much closer to home.
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The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .
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The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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Not a day goes by that I don't still need to remind myself that my life is not just what's handed to me, nor is it my list of obligations, my accomplishments or failures, or what my family is up to, but rather it is what I choose, day in and day out, to make of it all. When I am able simply to be with things as they are, able to accept the day's challenges without judging, reaching, or wishing for something else, I feel as if I am receiving the privilege, coming a step closer to being myself. It's when I get lost in the day's details, or so caught up in worries about what might be, that I miss the beauty of what is.
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When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.
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The pause is a part of the walk.
