Staying Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• Men credited with all kinds of ability, talent, brains and know how, including the ability to see into the future, frequently have nothing more than the courage to keep everlastingly at what they set out to do. They have that one great quality that is worth more than all the rest put together. They simply will not give up! When a man makes up his mind to do something then it's only a matter of time. Staying with time take bulldog persistence. This seems to be the entrance examination to success - lasting success -- of any kind!

  Earl Nightingale

  Giving Up, Men, Persistence

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• There are so many distractions you can face as a woman, either with relationships or worrying about, Should I go to this party? or, Should I be doing this to help me get ahead? All [success] is, is doing your work and staying focused. It's boring advice, but boring good advice is what you can get from me!

  Mindy Kaling

  Inspirational, Party, Worry

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• Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Fun, Sleep

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• Why is it that people think staying in a bad relationship is better than being single? Don't they know that being single is the first step to finding a great relationship?

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Being Single, Bad Relationship, Thinking

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• Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular way, you can count on change and external circumstances to come along which will challenge that decision. Remain vigilant after declaring a major decision and manage yourself in relationship to the goal. Set up structures that support you staying on target.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Support You, Goal

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• It doesn't matter if you're staying at a four-star hotel, you will never have your whole closet with you.

  Lexa Doig

  Stay Strong, Stars, Four

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• What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

  John McEnroe

  Stay Strong, Winning, Tennis

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• I'm dating a homeless woman. It was easier talking her into staying over.

  Garry Shandling

  Talking, Dating, Homeless

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• Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.

  J.R. Miller

  Perseverance, Persevere, Reason

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• ...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.

  David McCullough

  Men, Ideas, Leader

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.527, Simon and Schuster

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• The Wright brothers didn't contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn't contemplate the noncommunication of things. Thomas Edison didn't contemplate the darkness of things. In order to float an idea into your reality, you must be willing to do a somersault into the unconceivable and land on your feet, contemplating what you want instead of what you don't have.

  Wayne Dyer

  Brother, Communication, Reality

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way: Easyread Large Edition”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Daughter, Mother, Dad

  "Samuel L. Jackson: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2010.

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• Whenever I think of the memories of you by my side, it leaves a smile on my lips and gives me the hope of the love that we will have again when you will return. That is why I don't mind staying apart like this.

  Pharrell Williams

  Memories, Distance, Thinking

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• I'm not interested myself personally right now in doing anything. We went there. We lost a lot of blood, a lot of treasure, did a lot for them. They weren't interested in us staying. They made a choice.

  Buck McKeon

  Military, Blood, Iraq

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• As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity.

  Richard Page

  Lying, Moving, Hunting

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