Anna Seghers Quotes
Wait, I thought to myself! He wants to wait until everything that once was dear to him is trampled under foot.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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I have no special strategy. I can just wait to see what my opponent offers.
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This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
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There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.
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When my phone pops up with Dierks Bentley, I'm like, 'Oh my gosh!! Okay, wait. He's supposed to be, like, my friend. I'm supposed to be cool.'
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.
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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
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Dear God, I am only what you made me and I appreciate everything that you gave me, but like, I don't want to do it any more, sort of lost sight of what I'm doing it for.
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And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.
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Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.
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It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for.
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I don't go back and look at the monitor between every take; I wait until I feel like we finally got it right: "Let me stop and look at that last one on the monitor."
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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
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Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations; for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal; for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.
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Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!
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Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.
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We are in a wait-and-see mode right now.
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
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We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.
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....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.
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Wait, I thought to myself! He wants to wait until everything that once was dear to him is trampled under foot.
