George Singleton Quotes

There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."

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• Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  

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• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• I've never worried about life's big questions.

  

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• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

  

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• I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
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• I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
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• Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.

  

  Saint Ignatius
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• We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.

  

  Candace Bushnell
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• Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

  

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• There are such strong women in my life that there's no chance of me getting too big for my boots.

  

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• My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

  

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• In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.

  

  Tara Brach
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• The Outsider cannot accept life as it is, who cannot consider his own existence or anyone else's necessary. He sees 'too deep and too much'. It is still a question of self-expression.

  

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• I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.

  

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• There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.

  

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• Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

  

  Martha Beck
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• I want to fire the whole lot. Instantly. Out, out. No 'District' commands, no golden bowlers, nothing. Out … If I could, I'd do what Stalin did to Tukhachevsky.

  

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• Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.

  

  Matthew Perry
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• If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

  

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• We do it because we're committed, because we're believers.

  

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• There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."

  

  George Singleton
  • Life
  • Childhood
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