Importunate Quotes

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  Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• Whoever is happy will make others happy.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Anne Frank (1952). “The diary of a young girl”

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• It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

  Jane Fonda

  Inspirational, Happy Birthday, Being Happy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hate is too great a burden to bear.

  Coretta Scott King

  Hater, Famous Love, Inspirational Love

  "Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World‎" by Leo Parvis, (p. 54), 2006.

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• If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Men, Giving

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.256, Xist Publishing

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• I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  God, Waiting, Suitors

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• Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mirrors, Hair, Trying

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• One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Views

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.29, Jain Publishing Company

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• You Too? I thought I was the only one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Blow, Rich Or Poor

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Being Yourself, Stay Strong, Giving Up

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• Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiveness, Problems Love, New Day

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• In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Business, Track, Wagons

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.217, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Overcoming, Done

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.37, CCEL

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• Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cat, Men, Wife

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

  Walter Pater

  Reality, Sight, Calling

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Careers, Will And Determination

  Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

  Edmund Burke

  Numbers, Imagination, Shadow

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.557, Transaction Publishers

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• We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Long, Doe, May

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• The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

  Francois Fenelon

  Art, Want, Appetite

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• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

  Alfred Adler

  Self Esteem, Life Is Good, Danger In Life

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