Mates Quotes - Page 8

• The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me.

  Bill Bryson

  Men, Twelve, Hours

  Bill Bryson (2015). “Notes from a Small Island”, p.14, HarperCollins

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• If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a scant fifteen minutes ago, and all of recorded history has blinked by in the last sixty seconds. Luckily for us, our planet-mates--the fantastic meshwork of plants, animals, and microbes--have been patiently perfecting their wares since March, an incredible 3.8 billion years since the first bacteria. ...After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival.

  Janine Benyus

  New Year, Nature, Animal

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• A passion for life is one of the most attractive qualities in a human being. If you want a teammate or a life mate who loves to be around you, all you need to do is love to be around.

  Denis Waitley

  Relationship, Passion, Quality

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• To the garden of the world anew descending,
  Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding,
  The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being,
  Curious here behold my resurrection after slumber,
  The revolving cycles in their wide sweep having brought me again,
  amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous,
  My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for reasons, most wondrous,
  Existing I peer and penetrate still,
  Content with the present, content with the past,
  By my side or back of me Eve following,
  Or in front, and I following her just the same.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Daughter, Spring

  Walt Whitman, “To The Garden The World”

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• It's good to be incompatible with your partner sometimes. It causes your souls to stretch & grow - the point of a soul mate!

  Judith Orloff

  Emotional, Soul, Causes

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• It's not the burden of your mate or anyone else to heal your emotional issues.

  Judith Orloff

  Emotional, Issues, Burden

  Judith Orloff (2009). “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life”, p.370, Harmony

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• He's so fat, he can be his own running mate.

  Johnny Carson

  Sarcastic, Running, Obesity

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• Every day, passion speaks to us through our feelings. That's why when you allow yourself to become anesthetized by what others think, you literally block yourself from living the life you were called to live. I promise you that if you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart. The people who truly love you want you to love yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mother, Block, Live Life

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• You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard yourself as worthless. You can project an image of assurance and poise that fools almost everyone yet secretly tremble with a sense of inadequacy. You can fulfill the expectations of others yet fail your own. You can win every honor yet feel that you have accomplished nothing. What shall it profit a person to gain the esteem of the whole world yet lose his or her own?

  Nathaniel Branden

  Love You, Winning, Expectations

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Must, bid the Morn awake!
  Sad Winter now declines,
  Each bird doth choose a mate;
  This day's Saint Valentine's.
  For that good bishop's sake
  Get up and let us see
  What beauty it shall be
  That Fortune us assigns.

  Michael Drayton

  Valentines Day, Winter, Bird

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• On one level, going bust didn't bother me. It was the 80s, and there wasn't the stigma about bankruptcy that you might think. My mates weren't bothered. My dad was in business.. he knew that it happened, too. He loaned me the money to bail me out, and I got a loan from the bank to pay him back.

  Simon Cowell

  Friendship, Dad, Business

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• Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after the other, with the same female), we might guess that promiscuous societies were uncommon in the immediate human past.

  Carl Sagan

  Past, Men, Males

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• If Nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such a case all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile.

  Adolf Hitler

  Race, Years, Effort

  "Mein Kampf".

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• My girlfriend is a great support, and I've got a big circle of mates who keep my feet on the ground.

  Rob James-Collier

  Girlfriend, Circles, Feet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative, he submits to the yoke of communal servitude. Yet given a full chance to act in his own interest, nothing but expediency will restrain him from brutalizing, from maiming, from murdering his brother, his mate, his parent, or his child. Scratch an 'altruist' and watch a 'hypocrite' bleed.

  Michael Ghiselin

  Brother, Children, Hypocrite

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• By being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves.

  Edgar Cayce

  Soulmate, Individual, Complement

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• I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Laughing, Soul

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• What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Running, Soulmate

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Romantic, Soulmate

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• I hope there is such a thing. I guess it would be quite scary to find a soul mate when you're young because you're probably going to mess it up.

  Robert Pattinson

  Romance, Scary, Soul

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• You're on your own out there with ten mates.

  Michael Owen

  Football, Ten

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• In the East, we have developed a science: if you cannot find a soul mate, you can create one. And that science is Tantra. To find a soul mate means to find the person with whom all your seven centers meet naturally. That is impossible. Once in a while, a Krishna and a Radha, a Shiva and a Shakti. And when it happens it is tremendously beautiful. But it is like lightning - you cannot depend on it. If you want to read your Bible, you can't depend on it that when the lightning is there you will read. The lightning is a natural phenomenon, but not dependable.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Mean, Soul

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• If you wait for your natural soul mate to meet with you, it will be just like waiting for lightning with which to read your Bible. And you will not be able to read much either. For a moment it is there, and by the time you have opened the Bible it is gone.

  Rajneesh

  Waiting, Soul, Able

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• Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.

  Hilary Duff

  Soulmate, Real, Soul Mate

  Hilary Duff (2012). “Devoted: An Elixir Novel”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

  T.C. Boyle

  Pain, Pleasure, Inseparable

  T.C. Boyle (2001). “A Friend of the Earth”, p.21, Penguin

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