Casual Quotes - Page 10

• On most lines, making a sale without making a convert does not count for much. Sales made by conviction - by advertising - are likely to bring permanent customers. People who buy through casual recommendations often do not stick

  Claude C. Hopkins

  People, Doe, Lines

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins, John E. Kennedy, Albert D. Lasker “Scientific Advertising Origins”, Lulu.com

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• In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and evil, Obama sees the world in terms of victims and victimizers - with the United States often in the role of victimizer. In that view, long favored by the academic left that shaped a young Barack Obama, American foreign policy is one long train of abuses, marked by casual aggression and eager imperiousness.

  Stephen F. Hayes

  Views, America, Evil

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• Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most literal way, everything that is there and respond to it.

  Howard S. Becker

  Reading, Responsibility, Connections

  "Do Photographs Tell the Truth?". 1986.

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• Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it ends. Life is like that too. Just when we get it right, it starts to change. The job gets easy and we know just how to do it, and they tell us we're retired. The children grow up and get reasonable and they leave home, just when it's nice to have them around. . . . That's life on the edge of autumn. And that's beautiful-if we have the humility for it.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Life, Beautiful, Summer

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• Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

  Camille Paglia

  Abortion, Fit, Mass

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• Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

  Jim Bishop

  Grief, Joy, Unexpected

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• Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from lurching into the serious or melancholy, unlike Andrew, who had been unable to adopt his cousin's casual attitude to life, and to whom everything seemed so achingly profound, imbed with that absurd solemnity that the transience of of existence conferred upon even the smallest act.

  Félix J. Palma

  Cousin, Attitude, Literary Genre

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• It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.

  Chad Harbach

  Love, Long, Matter

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• I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Sex, Sleep, Heart

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• We didn't build our bridges simply to avoid walking on water. Nothing so obvious. A bridge is a meeting place. A neutral place. A casual place. Enemies will choose to meet on a bridge and end their quarrel in that void... For lovers, a bridge is a possibility, a metaphor of their chances. And for the traffic in whispered goods, where else but a bridge in the night?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Night, Bridges, Water

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.

  Adrienne Rich

  Memories, Lying, Grandchildren

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you go through life being casual, you will end up a casualty

  Les Brown

  Casualties, Ends, Ifs

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• It's a profoundly different thing to be able to refer to the images you are taking at the time and check them out on a laptop that is plugged into your Hasselblad and go "oh no, do it again, do it again" - all of those a requickly made decisions. The fact that you can see the images right away in a funny way makes the whole relationship more casual. I don't want a casual relationship with my subject.

  Bill Henson

  Decision, Different, Want

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties. Seek out the mentors that you need that will lead you to greatness in your field. If you're not willing to learn from others, who are you willing to learn from?

  Jim Rohn

  Greatness, Mentor, Needs

  Source: becomeanonlinetutor.com

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• My style is neither casual nor academic, it's somewhere in between. For me, that's the best way to be succinct and informative but still (I hope) at least a bit entertaining.

  Joel McIver

  Style, Way, Academic

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• I'm drawn to what I'm drawn to. I wear jeans and loafers everyday, mostly casual, but when I really turn it on, I like a classic, simple look.

  Allison Williams

  Simple, Jeans, Everyday

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• People already love to play casual games. But when you take a casual game and stick it inside a social network, it becomes way more exciting.

  Fred Wilson

  Games, Play, People

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• I can tell when I've met a bad journalist when they say, "I've met Madonna," or "I know Marilyn Manson." Because I haven't met anyone I've ever interviewed. I've sat down in the position of an interviewer, and they've sat down in the position of an artist trying to promote a product. We have no relationship. I'm able to ask them questions I'd never be allowed to ask them if we were casual friends. It's a completely constructed kind of situation.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Artist, Trying, Able

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• My interest in political philosophy was rather casual until I met Hayek.

  Milton Friedman

  Philosophy, Political, Hayek

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• The yearning to be Afghan, to be part of the country, part of the land helped me separate myself from the casual traveler and claim my Afghan identity.

  Hyder Akbar

  Country, Land, Identity

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• In the natural world, beautiful usually means deadly. Beautiful with a casual demeanor always means deadly.

  Edward'O

  Beautiful, Mean, World

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• Casual elegance is all about the mix.

  Charlotte Moss

  Elegance

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• We hold in our arms the rising generation. They come to this earth with important responsibilities and great spiritual capacities. We cannot be casual in how we prepare them. Our challenge as parents and teachers is not to create a spiritual core in their souls but rather to fan the flame of their spiritual core already aglow with the fire of their premortal faith.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Spiritual, Teacher, Responsibility

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• Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost.

  Laini Taylor

  Fall, Infinity, Exploration

  Laini Taylor (2014). “Dreams of Gods and Monsters: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.402, Hachette UK

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• I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so that we're drifting away from the casual beginning of the poem into something a little more serious.

  Billy Collins

  Goes On, Littles, Serious

  "Poet Billy Collins discusses humor, authenticity and ‘Aimless Love’". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. October 29, 2013.

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