Arthur Waley Quotes
Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.
Quotes to Explore
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.
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I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
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I am very strong. When you have children, you have to be.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.
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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
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My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, is every moment of it no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an unquestionable meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it.'
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Peyton Fahrquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
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The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life.
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Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.
