Ernest Sosa Quotes

It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

Ernest Sosa

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• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

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• I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

  

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• Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

  

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• I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

  

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• The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

  

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• I've had my share of villains and played some fairly nasty characters. But I've been acting for so long. I started out as the girl next door. Now I'm the grandmother next door.

  

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• I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be - it might be homelessness, whatever - and lately, I've redefined success as 'fulfilling your soul's purpose.'

  

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• My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth.

  

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• 31: Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

  

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• It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

  

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• I don't need to hit people in order to play good football. I'm not a boxer after all.

  

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• My maternal grandfather owned a grocery store that also sold kosher meat. He did well.

  

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• My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner.

  

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• I had first visited Kurdistan in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq, camping out in Erbil and Sulaimaniya while waiting for Saddam Hussein's fall.

  

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• Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

  

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• Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone; whereby in them you may be a blessing, and make the witness of God in them to bless you.

  

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• When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

  

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• Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.

  

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• I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.

  

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• It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • God
  • Impossibility
  • Attain