Lin Yutang Quotes
He who perceives death perceives a sense of the human comedy, and quickly becomes a poet.Lin Yutang
Quotes to Explore
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
Garth Brooks -
Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
Garth Brooks -
If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
Dan Jenkins -
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
Harold Rosenberg -
Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
Laura Moser
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
Carlo Ratti -
Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
Damian Lewis -
True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.
Barton Booth -
Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
Carl Friedrich Gauss -
It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
Saint Ambrose -
Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
Jaclyn Smith
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
Dakota Fanning -
People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
Larry Wilmore -
Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
Tamara Ecclestone -
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
Banksy -
Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
Barry Manilow -
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
Nancy Pearcey
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How wrong they were. I wasn’t a poor little thing at all. Even as early as this, such is the relief when pressure is removed, even in the very act of waving my last goodbyes, I found it quite difficult to pull a suitably regretful face, and I know I went back into the house, the silent house, the deliciously empty house, with steps so brisk that they nearly ran.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very problematic.
Ori Gersht -
In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.
Cory Booker -
Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
Ira Glass -
Reconquer the streets, the markets – the public spaces, with the same message of opposition: We are devastated, but we will not give up. With torches and roses, we deliver this message to the world: We do not let fear break us. And we do not let the fear of fear silence us.
Jens Stoltenberg -
He who perceives death perceives a sense of the human comedy, and quickly becomes a poet.
Lin Yutang