Initials Quotes

• Pick a tree. I'll carve our initials into it." -Fang

  James Patterson

  Tree, Maximum Ride, Picks

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• I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.

  Tom Waits

  Arms, Nails, Scratches

  Song: Kentucky Avenue, Album: Blue Valentine

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• If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Humorous, Office, Doubt

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• The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real repentance accompanying the initial spiritual experience of the converts. And the absence of repentance is the result of an inadequate view of sin and sinfulness held by those who present themselves in the inquiry room.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

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• The best initial move for white is 1. P-K4.

  Irving Chernev

  Moving, White, Chess

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• I spend a lot of my downtime studying different businesses and learning from a lot of entrepreneurs when I'm not playing football. They can help me evaluate different ventures to see if they'll work. I was aggressive with my initial investments, trying to hit a homerun each time. But now, I'm stepping back and being more patient, giving them due diligence.

  Kamerion Wimbley

  Football, Giving, Entrepreneur

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• Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

  E. B. White

  Death, Fashion, Men

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.91, Cornell University Press

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• The most fundamental decision we all face over the course of our lives is what we will recognize as the ultimate reality, the uncaused source and cause of our existence. Everything else in our worldview depends on that initial decision. The Bible speaks of this foundational choice in terms of who or what we worship. We must all answer the challenge Joshua issued to the Israelites as they were poised to enter the Promised Land: "Choose this day whom you will serve" (Josh. 24:15).

  Nancy Pearcey

  Reality, Land, Choices

  Nancy Pearcey (2015). “Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes”, p.35, David C Cook

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• If you think your initial market might be too big, it almost certainly is.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, Might, Bigs

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.44, Crown Business

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• I think, in the initial process of discovering a character and the analytical process - and this is what I did take from Buddhism - initially I think there has to be an analytical, intellectual approach. And that has to be abandoned by the time you're playing the game.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Character, Buddhism, Thinking

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.

  Milarepa

  Suffering, Desire, Finals

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• For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Writing, Poetry

  "The Figure a Poem Makes" by Robert Frost, 1939.

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• The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.

  Madeleine Albright

  Cover Ups, Wrongdoing

  Madeleine Albright (2001). “Madam Secretary”, Miramax Books

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• There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.

  Ann Brashares

  Writing, Ideas, Doubt

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• If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the other hand, if you don't get that tingle, you'd better take it straight down to the record exchange.

  Andy Partridge

  Hands, Records, Matter

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• I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

  Salman Rushdie

  Games, Thrones, Resistance

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• In my first start-up, I had an initial advertising budget of $5 per day total. That would buy us 100 clicks per day. At $5 per day, marketing people scoffed and said that is too small to matter. But if you think about it, to an engineer, 100 real humans everyday giving your product a try means you can really start improving.

  Eric Ries

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Life, Wedding

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.248, First Avenue Editions

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• When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  People, Pressure, Producers

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• All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.

  Deepak Chopra

  Exhilaration, Dogma, Accepting

  "Science Set Free (Good News for ‘Lumbering Robots’)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Ends, Force

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• My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Character, Reality

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• The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

  Aristotle

  Truth, Honesty, Ethics

  Aristotle (2015). “On The Heavens”, p.10, Aristotle

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• I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

  Jensen Ackles

  Girl, Firsts, Nervous

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• All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Inspiration, Character, People

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