Stuck Quotes - Page 13

• Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable.

  Edmund White

  Views, Years, Ideas

  Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.260, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• And we would play together, like fine musicians should, And it would sound like music, and the music would sound good. But in real life I'm stuck with that same old formula, me and my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

  Harry Chapin

  Real, Play, Symphony

  Song: Six String Orchestra, 1974

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• I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.

  Alex Garland

  Beach, Giving Up, Stubborn

  Interview with Dennis Widmyer, chuckpalahniuk.net. July 30, 2007.

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• Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers.

  Stephen Schneider

  People, Answers, Belief

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• I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God," I stuck fast; that very one word, I, put me to a non-plus. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

  Martin Luther

  Lord, Plus, Preacher

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.5

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• Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

  E. L. James

  Art, Moving, Ivory Tower

  "Fifty Shades from Christian’s Point of View: Includes Grey and Darker". Book by E. L. James, 2017.

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• I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

  Michael Lewis

  Might, Catastrophe, Ifs

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• He stuck a camera down my throat....ewwww, I gagged!!! It was kinda funny though.....he said I have "Acute Laryngitis".

  Avril Lavigne

  Cameras, Said, Throat

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• I sing, and I really should've stuck with it, because it's really what I love to do. It's probably what I'm best at, too.

  Stephanie Zimbalist

  Should

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• When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Dangerous, Randomness, Impasse

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.102, Random House

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• Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice President of the United States. Should have stuck with my old chores as Speaker of the House. I gave up the second most important job in the Government for one that didn't amount to a hill of beans. I spent eight long years as Mr. Roosevelt's spare tire.

  John Nance Garner

  Jobs, Mistake, Government

  1963 In the Saturday Evening Post, 2 Nov.

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• I see the possibility of being 'made new' again and the gift of rebirth is all that lets anyone really live.. ..The great secret.. .. is never to get stuck, imprisoned in common social patterns. They always paralyse the real quality of life - the 'going onward' is all that matters, and the dead moments in one's life through trying to be a unit in any society or social concept are terrifying really.

  Marsden Hartley

  Real, Secret, Trying

  Letter to Adelaide Kuntz; as quoted in "Marsden Hartley", by Gail R. Scott, 1988, p. 168, September 7, 1933.

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• If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Men, Breasts, Wanted

  Eiji Yoshikawa (2000). “Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan”, p.890, Kodansha International

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• It is an accurate statement that the followers of Witchcraft do not usually proselytize, which means you aren't going to find us standing on your local street corner thumping our Books of Shadows. Nor do you have to worry about jumping out of the shower to answer our serene and smiling faces at the door with your clothes stuck to various uncomfortable places on your wet body. But just because we (hopefully) aren't the forcible type doesn't mean we don't exist.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Book, Mean, Doors

  Silver RavenWolf (2012). “To Ride a Silver Broomstick: New Generation Witchcraft”, p.18, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites stuck to them. You are too intent upon your chewing and gathering to listen to me, but I tell you that despite my warm feelings I really do not like you, and I cannot feel sorry for you in any way because there are too many of you and you are not cute at all. You eat too much of my forests; you are a rebellious tribe, and I will destroy you; I will poison your nests with sweet-smelling traps.

  William T. Vollmann

  Cute, Sweet, Sorry

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• When you're stuck sitting in a comfort zone, small problems become magnified. Get out of your comfort zone, touch the edge, and you come back with an appreciation for life.

  Barbara Warren

  Appreciation, Small Problems, Comfort

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• [T]he Swiss people are the best practitioners of the ideals of non-aggression. The Swiss national government posts are parttime positions. Most decisions are made at the canton (state) level. Swiss per capita income is the highest in the world, showing that non-aggression pays. How did the Swiss come to adopt a relatively non-aggressive constitution in an aggressive world? In the mid-1800s, they imitated our constitution and stuck with it!

  Mary Ruwart

  Government, People, Decision

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• How Human beings are, that is how the society will be. So, creating human beings who are flexible and willing to look at everything rather than being stuck in their ideas and opinions definitely makes for a different kind of society. And the very energy that such human being carry will influence everything around them.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Ideas, Creating, Energy

  "The Times of India". June 10, 2009.

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• Los Angeles has no seasons, so it's kind of hard to keep track of time here. The lines between spring, summer, fall, and winter all blur like my vision. I get stuck on repeat for different measures of eternity.

  Kris Kidd

  Summer, Spring, Fall

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• The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only a sequencer to keep them company.

  Derrick May

  Mistake, Detroit, Clinton

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• Put God first in everything you do ... Everything that I have is by the grace of God, understand that. It's a gift ... I didn't always stick with Him, but He stuck with me.

  Denzel Washington

  Grace, Firsts, Sticks

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• I'm not an aspiring rapper, I'm not a gang member, I'm not a dope dealer, I don't have multiple babies momma's. I am an American by choice, I am a son, I am a brother, I am a military service member, I am a man who has lost complete faith in the system, when the system betrayed, slandered, and libeled me. I lived a good life and though not a religious man I always stuck to my own personal code of ethics, ethos and always stuck to my shoreline and true North. I didn't need the US Navy to instill Honor, Courage, and Commitment in me but I thank them for re-enforcing it. It's in my DNA.

  Christopher Dorner

  Baby, Religious, Brother

  "Alleged cop-killer details threats to LAPD and why he was driven to violence" by Mallory Simon, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2013.

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• I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Passion, Sleep, Ideas

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• The problem is with any practice is that it is a practice. That is why people don't win. The reason why people don't win is they get stuck in ideas, habits, and ways of seeing life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Winning, Practice, Ideas

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• Be radical! The reason you feel so miserable is because you put spirituality in a form. You boxed it, franchised it. You decided spirituality was a certain way but then you got stuck in the way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Way, Spirituality

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