Havens Quotes - Page 13

• I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.

  Kin Hubbard

  Cost, Want, Heard

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• Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist; that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Magic Moments

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.

  Ruby Wax

  Mother, Kids, Life Is Hard

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• If you've never had a God-sized dream that scared you half to death, then you haven't really come to life. If you've never been overwhelmed by the impossibility of your plans, then your God is too small. If your vision isn't perplexingly impossible, then you need to expand the radiuses of your prayer circles.

  Mark Batterson

  Dream, Prayer, Circles

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• I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.265, Harvard University Press

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• The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven't given them anything else to care about.

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Care, Reason

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.218, Penguin

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• Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface!

  Marianne Williamson

  Positive Thinking, Scratches, Fractions

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• People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

  Birch Bayh

  Father, People, Attention

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• That's one of the best sets I've seen him play, although I should preface that by saying I haven't seen him play before.

  John McEnroe

  Play, Tennis, Should

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2009.

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• I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.

  Sebastian Barry

  Book, Blood, Play

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• I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Stress, Numbers, Phones

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• Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or their place, until you've exterminated their resident monsters.

  David Quammen

  People, Monsters, Lions

  David Quammen (2004). “Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind”, p.254, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my heart, and I haven't followed some kind of marketing scheme.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Heart, People, Marketing

  "Esperanza Spalding: Grammy Award 2011 Winner For Best New Artist", www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2011.

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• There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.

  Irwin Shaw

  Memories, Book, Long

  Herbert Kline, Irwin Shaw (1985). “New theatre and film, 1934 to 1937: an anthology”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet.
  The most beautiful child hasn't grown up yet.
  The most beautiful days we haven't seen yet.
  And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you
  I haven't said yet.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Beautiful, Children, Sea

  Nâzım Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1994). “Poems of Nazim Hikmet”

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• It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed.

  Roger Milla

  Events, Projects, Changed

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2006.

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• If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.

  John Cowper Powys

  Purpose, Action, Compromise

  John Cowper Powys (1944). “The art of growing old”

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• Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family

  Andy Zaltzman

  Jobs, Believe, Giving

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• Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake.

  Charlie Brooker

  Real, Doors, Shoes

  "The very fabric of society is breaking down around us. What the hell is there left to believe in?" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2009.

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• Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first novel this promising since The Confederacy of Dunces.

  Jill Ciment

  Waiting, Ambitious, Hilarity

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• I actually haven't been on many dates, but I like just chilling around at home and watching a movie with a girl.

  Niall Horan

  Girl, Home, Chill

  "One Direction Exclusive Interview". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. March 9, 2012.

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• Girls interested in modeling need to realize that its hard work. You can go to a shoot in the morning and not even start shooting until 10pm - and still be there at 5am the next day. Then if you still haven’t got the shot, you’ll have to go back the next day and start again!

  Kate Moss

  Girl, Morning, Hard Work

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• When thoughts tell you it’s too late, dismiss them. You haven’t dreamed your best dream. You haven’t run your best race.

  Joel Osteen

  Running, Dream, Race

  Twitter post from May 8, 2014

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• On this special day of love, remember that your Father loves you more than you could ever imagine...no matter what you’ve done or haven’t done. No box of candy or flowers can compare to this kind of agape love!

  Joyce Meyer

  Love, God, Religious

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• I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.

  Maria Callas

  Giving, House, Feelings

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