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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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 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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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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Don't react with fear and panic in the face of debt collector threats. Talk to them and explain your situation. See if you can work out a compromise.
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The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.
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If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
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It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
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The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.
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My parents had five children in six years and one week, meaning that my mom was pregnant for most of the '60s and driving carpools for most of the '70s. When we were young, she dressed us alike so she could pick us out in crowds: identical skirts for the four girls with the color-coordinated pants for my brother.
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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
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Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.
