Gail Caldwell Quotes

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

Gail Caldwell

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• Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Society
  • Embrace

• My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • World
  • Death
  • Die

• I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Idea
  • Embrace
  • Entertainer

• The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Trouble
  • Boxing
  • Sadness

• When the night falls, my lonely heart calls.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Fall

• Joy and sadness come by turns.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Joy
  • Sadness
  • Turns

• My suggestion for a fast style upgrade would be to embrace a pop of color or pattern. Try layering a bright, pullover knit on top of a dress shirt with a subtle or bold pattern.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Style
  • Color
  • Bold

• Pain or perspective, that's the choice.' . . . You choose pain - you choose to fight it, deny it, bury it - then yes, the choice is always hard. But you choose perspective - embrace your history, give it credit for the better person it can make you, scars and all - the choice gets easier every time.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Time
  • History
  • Giving

• Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love... But I didn't have enough time or ink for everyone. Or maybe it was the strain of the city, of time the cold heart of the clocks.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Why

• When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Life
  • Family
  • Job

• I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Heart
  • Lost
  • Sadness

• [We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Progress
  • Liberty
  • Assuming

• Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • People
  • World
  • Purpose

• Down you go, but all the while you feel suspended and buoyed as you somersault in slow motion like a somnolent tumbler pigeon, and sprawl supine on the eiderdown of the air, or lazily turn to embrace your pillow, enjoying every last instant of soft, deep, death-padded life, with the earth's green see-saw now above, now below, and the voluptuous crucifixion, as you stretch yourself in the growing rush, in the nearing swish, and then your loved body's obliteration in the Lap of the Lord.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Enjoy
  • Lord
  • Embrace

• Sadness diminishes a man's powers.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Sadness
  • Powers
  • Diminishes

• You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

  

  William P. Young
  • Want
  • Embrace
  • Soil

• In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Mountain
  • Realizing
  • Sadness

• In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Grief
  • Sadness
  • Sentimentality

• I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Bad
  • Sorry

• The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and sister, or the brother and brother are facing. Relationships are universal.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Kind
  • Couple
  • Brother

• We have got too many kids around the house to have a romantic meal at home. But Danielle is a fantastic cook. She does a brilliant lasagne, great roasts and a great chilli dish. She knows the way to my heart.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Home

• You're not going to hit it every single time, and that's why, when I record an album, I do probably close to 50 songs. Each song I record has to get better. If it's not better than the last song that I made, it'll usually linger for a couple of months, and then it'll be put on the backburner, and then there'll be another song that I do, and then it often doesn't make it on the album.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Song
  • Couple

• In today's schools, 'religious studies' has almost entirely replaced theology.

  

  Avery Dulles
  • Religious
  • Theology
  • Studies

• Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

  

  Gail Caldwell
  • Sadness
  • Embrace
  • Assuming