Lin Yutang Quotes
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Quotes to Explore
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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I don't do negative things.
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God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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It's a team game, but you've got to have individuals that really want the ball and want the pressure of being there to help get in a position to win.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I buy soy sauce and flavor it five different ways: with sake, mirin, sugar, kombu and bonito flakes. I use them on lots of dishes at home.
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This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
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Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.
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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
