Jimmy Buffett Quotes
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
Kate Dickie -
Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
Rachel Cusk -
You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
Felix Baumgartner -
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
The FCC does not have performance goals or measures to assess the specific impact of the fund or to improve the management of the program.
Ed Whitfield -
There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay.
Vaclav Havel
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The trouble with most people is that they want to know the way and the channels beforehand. They want to tell Supreme Intelligence just how their prayers should be answered. They do not trust the wisdom and ingenuity of God.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
And the family who had refused to acknowledge the woman's illness and who had all immunized themselves from concern by conceiving their own problems, now performed their duties.
Rabindranath Maharaj -
... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.
Flannery O'Connor -
So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
Leon Uris -
A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination.
Louis Nizer -
One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.
Henry Paulson
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But man's eyes are blind through sin, and he can discern no part of God's truth till the Spirit opens them. Inner illumination, leading directly as it does to a deep, inescapable conviction, is thus fundamental to the Spirit's work as a teacher.
J. I. Packer -
If life a joke then I’m waiting for the punch. You all about the beef but me, I’m bout the bun.
Mac Miller -
They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
Willie Mays -
You don't lose your temper and throw the cat out the door. You don't lose your temper and throw a dish at the dog and make him thing he's going to die.
Ernest Angley -
A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.
Kami Garcia -
When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.
Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
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I had a friend who got pregnant at age 14 and wasn't quite sure who the father was. Her paternity test went a little something like this: “If it comes out black, its Darwin's and if it comes out white its Ray's.” This is how things were done in the trailer park.
Kate Madison -
There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us.
Jimmy Buffett