Staying Quotes - Page 8

• Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.

  Richard Wollheim

  Growing Up, Alive, Way

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• My son was staying with me, and we got up to watch it, just before they announced supporting actress, he came up and put his arm around me. I think it was like, 'Either way, mom, I still love you.' But then it was funny because I saw it. I saw my picture, and I heard them announce it, but I had to ask him, 'Did I really see that?' I wasn't sure I was seeing it, but he assured me that yes, I was nominated for the Academy Award. We just sort of cried a little bit.

  June Squibb

  Mom, Love You, Son

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• As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Trying, May

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• There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Home, Optimistic, Fishing

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• A lot of people that I've had around me have been my closest friends since junior high, back when we were exchanging each other's clothes, staying at each other's houses. That was before I had anything.

  Paul Pierce

  Clothes, People, House

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• In general, presidents and congressmen have very limited power to do good for the economy and awesome power to do bad. The best good thing that politicians can do for the economy is to stop doing bad. In part, this can be achieved through reducing taxes and economic regulation, and staying out of our lives.

  Walter E. Williams

  President, Regulation, Politician

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• Shame on you for staying the same.

  Jhene Aiko

  Shame, Shame On You

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• There are people who can walk away from you... let them walk. I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you... Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person, it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over.

  T. D. Jakes

  Mean, Caring, Destiny

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• At the expansion stage, it's really easy to lose focus and chase the shiny object, instead of staying focused on what you're good at and the customers that are already successful.

  Jim McDonough

  Successful, Focus, Expansion

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• The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Stay Strong, Giving Up, Numbers

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• The path of the Warrior is lifelong, and mastery is often simply staying on the path.

  Richard Strozzi-Heckler

  Warrior, Mastery, Path

  Richard Strozzi-Heckler (2011). “In Search of the Warrior Spirit, Fourth Edition: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets”, p.75, North Atlantic Books

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• I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.

  Zach Wamp

  Stay Strong, Home, Together

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• Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times. . . . Your ability to thrive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take everything in stride with grace, putting forth energy when it is needed, yet always staying calm inwardly.

  Ping Fu

  Attitude, Wind, Grace

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• Whom shall I call on? Who will share with me The wretched happiness of staying alive?

  Sergei Yesenin

  Love, Alive, Share

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• Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

  Kent Nerburn

  Love, Wise, Wisdom

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.169, New World Library

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• The person who makes all cares into one care the care for simply staying present will be cared for by that presence which is creative love.

  Kabir Helminski

  Creative, Care, Awareness

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• Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

  Gary Wright

  Music, Song, Timeless

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• The number one idea is to view a stock as an ownership of the business and to judge the staying quality of the business in terms of its competitive advantage. Look for more value in terms of discounted future cash-flow than you are paying for. Move only when you have an advantage.

  Charlie Munger

  Moving, Ideas, Numbers

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• With one eye on today's blessings you will have more staying power for the distant goal.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Thank You, Eye, Blessing

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• You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Reason

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.195, Penguin

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• It's nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project.

  Jay Asher

  School, Needs, Answers

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.17, Penguin

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• His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed. He's letting me go. I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward to stop me. A lot of you cared, just not enough. And that...that is what i needed to find out. And I did find out. And I'm sorry.

  Jay Asher

  Sorry, Thinking, Doors

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• Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't." "I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.

  Patrick Ness

  Mean, Cuz, Fingers

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• You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running around, not married, staying out all night. Ashamed!" "Ashamed!" my grandmother echoed. Good to know they still agreed on things after forty-three years of marriage.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Running, Grandmother, Night

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Fleeing, World, Way

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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