Washington Irving Quotes

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

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• You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.

  

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• I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.

  

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• Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

  

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• If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?

  

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• This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

  

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• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  

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• I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.

  

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• The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.

  

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• Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.

  

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• I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.

  

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• Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

  

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• Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

  

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• You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

  

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• I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

  

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• In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.

  

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• We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

  

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• I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.

  

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• But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities.

  

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• To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Writer
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• Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but one.

  

  Patrick White
  • Age

• It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Up
  • True
  • Age

• A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Age
  • Never
  • Tongue