Trenton Lee Stewart Quotes
Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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I've felt ugly and insecure.
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
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I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.
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I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
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She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.
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Ten years in this job is a really long time. These are tough assignments. I'm pleased I'm leaving in an amicable, civilized, mutually respectful way. Leslie felt it was time for a change and so did I.
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The Olympics were the most pressure I've ever felt.
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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.
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My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.
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There are a lot of similarities to that situation. I remember sitting on the plane with Bob Boone, and he said, 'Sometimes when you let the air out of a balloon, it's hard to pump it up again.' That's how we felt.
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I've always kind of known what I like and what I don't. And never felt any pressure to wear certain things or watch certain things... It's hard to explain, but I've just always felt it.
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We felt it was our responsibility to do this as neighbors. These boats are big, industrial-looking boats that are used for duck hunting. They are very open and they can put stuff, people, pets, livestock or whatever they want in them.
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I was a teenager I felt like the world's worst nerd.
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Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.
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Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.
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Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
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The things men did or felt they had to do.
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You do learn from the things that you suffer. I made sure I took it all in. But instead of trying to hide that and put some fluffy fun record together, I went with how I felt.
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All new ideas pass through three stages: first they are dismissed as nonsense, then they are rejected as being against religion and finally they are acknowledged as the truth, with the proviso from the initial opponents that they knew it all along.
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The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.
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Small wonder that love would break under circumstances like these. Standing there in the soddie door, she seemed two personalities. One argued bitterly that it was impossible for love to keep going when there was no hope for the future, suggested that there was no use trying to keep it going. The other said sternly that marriage was not the fulfillment of a passion, - marriage was the fulfillment of love. And love was sometimes pleasure and sometimes duty.
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Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?
