Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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• Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Character
  • Lost
  • Suffering

• I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Song
  • Player
  • Guitar

• In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Voices

• As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Myself

• When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Talk
  • Expect

• We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Run
  • Systems
  • Fossil Fuels

• I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Lot
  • Western
  • Influences

• I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Want
  • Know
  • Fall

• It keeps agitating and worrying us there, ... They're trying to get it to calm down.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Trying
  • Problem
  • Calm

• In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.

  

  Ueda Akinari
  • Friendship

• One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Important
  • Management
  • Time Management

• The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Youth
  • Perfection
  • Aim

• By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Heart
  • She
  • Feel

• You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City, I'm part of the greatest band in the world. Am I happy with that? No, I'm not! I want more!

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • World
  • Happy
  • City

• When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.

  

  Isabel Gillies
  • Become
  • Discover
  • Event

• The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Today
  • Years
  • Students

• When I learned that there was such a thing as an atheist, I looked it up - and found out that the definition fitted me to a tee. Finally, at the age of 24, I found out who and what I was. Better late than never.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Up
  • Age
  • Atheist

• The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Married
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