Staying Quotes - Page 32

• The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Leaving, Impossible

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.

  Frank Peretti

  Nice, Live Life, Forever

  Frank E. Peretti (2011). “Monster”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight

  Demi Lovato

  Tonight

  Song: La-la Land Machine, Album: Don't Forget, 2008

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• Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?

  Noel Coward

  Eye, Power, People

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• This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.

  Miranda July

  Running, Strong, Home

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• My Carmen," I said (I used to call her that sometimes) "we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as you get out of bed." "... Because, really," I continued, "there is no point in staying here." "There is no point in staying anywhere," said Lolita.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Towns, Bed, Sometimes

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.134, Hamilton Books

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• Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

  Orson Scott Card

  Hands, Credit, Conversation

  "Children of the Mind". Book by Orson Scott Card, August, 1996.

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• If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall - if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then the good life shall be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold you back.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Good Life, Men, Fearless

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• The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Enemy, Alive, Sake

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Frank Cameron, Don Dombowsky (2008). “Political writings of Friedrich Nietzsche: an edited anthology”, Palgrave MacMillan

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• What makes the strength of a soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of signals, it's the strength he's able to concentrate within himself, by staying centered.

  Muriel Barbery

  Guy, Soldier, Trying

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, 2006.

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• It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

  George Orwell

  Heritage, Heard, Sane

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Annabeth, thank goodness, would be staying in New York. She'd gotten permission from her parents to attend a boarding school in the city so she could be close to Olympus and oversee the rebuilding efforts. "And close to me?" I asked. "Well, someone's got a big sense of his own importance." But she laced her fingers through mine. I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought—just maybe—we were off to a good start.

  Rick Riordan

  New York, School, Cities

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• I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.

  Aimee Bender

  Clothes, Dating, Skins

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• People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Moving, People, World

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Regret, Home, Two

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• Whenever I see her, we laugh enough to last for the month. She's my best friend, and someday when we're old enough I'm going to talk her into staying here forever.

  Grace Lin

  Laughing, Forever, My Best Friend

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• Weren't you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you going and coming and often staying all night.).

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Night, Expectations, Events

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.5, Vintage

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• One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, What Matters, Doors

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• Dan was suspicious. "How did he find out where we were staying?" Amy frowned. "I think that's the message inside the message. He wants us to know that he has a long reach–that's he's rich and powerful." "Like we'll see his giant mansion and assume he works at Burger King," scoffed Dan.

  Gordon Korman

  Kings, Powerful, Thinking

  Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.126, Scholastic Inc.

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• We're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature. These works - groundbreaking, incendiary, timeless - have been pureed by the curriculum monsters into a digestible pabulum of themes and factoids we can spew back on a test. Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

  Libba Bray

  School, Exercise, Class

  "Going Bovine". Book by Libba Bray, September 22, 2009.

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• We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Reality, Two

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

  George Orwell

  Lonely, Long, Broken

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Being in the uncomfortable zone is much better than staying in the cheese-less situation .

  Spencer Johnson

  Life, Change, Cheese

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• Staying silent, staying away from him... that was the hardest thing I've ever done.

  Rick Riordan

  Done, Silent, Hardest

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.255, Penguin UK

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• We were locked onto each other as though we had just discovered this incredible thing you could do with two mouths pressing close and moist against each other. And the taste of him... Horrifyingly, unbearably sweet -- sweet in the way crack must feel hitting the bloodstream of an addict after years of staying clean.

  Josh Lanyon

  Sweet, Years, Two

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