A. A. Milne Quotes

Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

A. A. Milne

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• Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Live
  • Short

• Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Experience
  • Success

• I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Change
  • Worry
  • Mysterious

• I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • World
  • Want
  • Aunt

• My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Parents
  • Boat
  • Italy

• I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Parenting

• I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Myself

• Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Together
  • Help

• I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Know
  • Dying

• Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Think
  • Expression

• I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Kind

• I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry people that I wasn't really in love with, and who weren't right for me, because I hoped they would be.

  

  Lana Wood
  • People
  • Life
  • Feel

• Courage was never designed for show;It isn't a thing that can come and go;It's written in victory and defeatAnd every trial a man may meet.It's part of his hours, his days and his years,Back of his smiles and behind his tears.Courage is more than a daring deed:It's the breath of life and a strong man's creed.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Life
  • May
  • Strong

• If you bargain when they squeeze your balls, they will only squeeze again.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi

• 'All right,' said Rowlandson. He began shakily to count out notes. Near-broken, he was still an Englishman; he would not bargain.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Broken

• Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Poverty
  • Red
  • Horse

• I was in New York in 2014. It was still cold outside. I was sitting there working on 'Exchange' and 'Right My Wrongs' at the time, and a fan had commented on one of my songs called 'Let Em' Know' that was already on my SoundCloud and said, 'trapsoul movement.'

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • Time
  • Cold

• I will happily work anywhere they need me to if they pay me well.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • Work

• Every kid wants to give their family a better life.

  

  J. B. Bernstein
  • Life
  • Family
  • Kids

• I look better with a tan, but I've never gone the fake route. I don't need to - I have good foreign genes: half Spanish, half Hungarian.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Good
  • Fake
  • Spanish

• It's important to practice good hygiene, At least if you wanna run with my team.

  

  Del tha Funkee Homosapien
  • Important
  • Team
  • Wanna

• Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

  

  A. A. Milne