Raymond Carver Quotes

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• A lot of people are afraid to face themselves, especially when something goes wrong. But that's important, because if something happens within a relationship, it could be how you're allowing someone else to treat you.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Important
  • Relationship

• The bad things are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass. It is a moral morass in the sense that it signals to the doctors and hospitals that human beings have different values depending on their income status.

  

  Uwe Reinhardt
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Health

• Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Men
  • Business
  • Computer

• As long as we find that the energy impact is only temporary ... my guess is that the effects on the overall economy will be fairly modest.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Long
  • Energy
  • Economy

• The one who follows the thought is also a thought! The one who follows the thought IS in thought. When you know that both are thoughts, you are home. You are not at home, you ARE home. Then allow thoughts to arise and allow them to be followed. You remain as That unmoved and unconcerned Being. This is the highest understanding.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Home
  • Understanding
  • Thoughts

• I celebrate the spirit of Christmas. It's the winter solstice celebration, rebirth and new possibilities.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Spirit
  • Christmas
  • Winter

• Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Money

• At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Time
  • Live
  • Heart

• If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Good

• Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Why
  • Energy

• When asked by Glenn Beck if people should be allowed to own semi-automatic weapons, Dr. Benjamin Carson said: “It depends on where you live. I think if you live in the midst of a lot of people, and I’m afraid that that semi-automatic weapon is going to fall into the hands of a crazy person, I would rather you not have it.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Afraid
  • Weapons
  • Crazy People

• You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what the best representative of that idea may be, and bringing it to life.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • May
  • Way

• We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Free

• The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Team
  • Boss
  • Speed

• Success is a process... During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Success
  • Journey

• Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Taken
  • Morality
  • Burden Of Proof

• In the wake of my talk with Earl, we had come to a mutual understanding about Lena, the only kind guys ever come to. Meaning, I hadn’t brought it up, and they hadn’t brought it up, and between us, we somehow all agreed to go on like this indefinitely. Don’t ask, don’t tell.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Understanding

• It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • World
  • Help
  • Study

• You have a traitor there, Aslan," said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund. But Edmund had got past thinking about himself after all he'd been through and after the talk he'd had that morning. He just went on looking at Aslan. It didn't seem to matter what the Witch said.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Past

• Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.

  

  Raymond Carver
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