Celeste Ng Quotes

What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.

Celeste Ng

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• What's been largely forgotten is that Washington was highly passionate and aggressive, and it was only after losing Philadelphia to the British after a string of disastrous battlefield performances that he finally resigned himself to the more conservative approach with which he has since become associated.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Losing
  • Philadelphia

• If you want to decide the question of migration without asking your citizens against the will of the people, you are fighting a losing battle.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Question
  • Fighting

• I gained, I think, 65 pounds when I was pregnant. And I will say to moms out there, 'Don't stress about losing it. It will happen when it happens.'

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Think
  • Stress
  • Losing

• I steal from every movie ever made.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Made
  • Ever

• I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.

  

  Isabel Vargas Lizano
  • Men
  • Made
  • Bed

• I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Different
  • Way
  • Made

• I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Health
  • Moving
  • Appreciate

• The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Made
  • Singer

• You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Life
  • Important
  • Winning

• I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Choices
  • Losing

• I don't want my kid to hear any of the albums that I've made.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Made

• I felt really good, really relaxed. I made an effort to clear my mind.

  

  Matt Robinson
  • Made
  • My Mind
  • Relaxed

• They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.

  

  Max Roach
  • Sound
  • Made
  • Movement

• Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • World
  • Made
  • Creation

• Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Growing
  • Order
  • Losing

• When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • People
  • Art
  • Hate

• Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Brother
  • Sweet
  • Made

• I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • May
  • Spirit
  • Fool

• Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Imagination
  • Losing

• Losing is a bad feeling. I've never been on an undefeated team throughout high school, so I tasted defeat before. I've been taught to handle it graciously.

  

  Brad Tavares
  • School
  • Losing
  • Defeat

• And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Know
  • Voice
  • Stars

• If you are a pastor, and you don't think your congregation wants to hear this kind of message, think about forming a new congregation. It won't be difficult. Just start preaching like a prophet of God, and the losers will leave, or toss you out. Your income as a pastor is going to wipe you out anyway; better seek alternative income now, while you have the opportunity.

  

  Gary North
  • Kind
  • Message
  • Pastor

• You know, the primary process itself is very confusing. But in the end, I guess I believe what Winston Churchill said, which is that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. And that phrase of his, which I always have previously thought to be kind of acute, more recently I've thought of it in this way, to say well, you know what, he's also saying it's the worst form of government - except for all of the others.

  

  Geoffrey Cowan
  • Government
  • Process
  • Confusing

• What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.

  

  Celeste Ng
  • Made
  • Losing
  • Findings