Setbacks are to be replied with a push back and not a sit back
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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.
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Setbacks allow us to take a step back and look at the view from a whole.
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CALVIN JOHNSON
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Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
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JOHN ROOS People live for eating,but
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To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
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I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
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C. JOYBELL C. I'd like to sit back and watch.
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Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We will push them to come back.
ELAINE YOUNGS It is quite sensible for them to sit back and see where they are.
PAUL ASHWORTH This is going to be a very difficult year for me, to sit out. I've had a uniform on every year since...
FRED HOIBERG if we're really meant to be together, someday we're going to find our way back to each other.
ALEXANDER A. MANANTAN You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,...
SAM MENDES
Sit back, enjoy the ride and hang out with me for a little while. ( sorry, cheesy driving metaphor!)
MILEY CYRUS When we get a lead, we have a tendency to sit back.
ANDY BRANDT He who wants milk should not sit in the middle of a field and wait for a cow to back up to him
PROVERB
How I'm glad to go back home!
Once I truly have no more worry.
Many of those who are in a...
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With 'Suite Life,' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with l...
DEBBY RYAN Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB
If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others.
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CLAUDIO CACAPA Sit-ups and push-ups work without a gym.
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BRAD AKYUZ This shows us that we don't have to simply sit back and take the trash, but we can get involved and ...
DON WILDMON I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.
ERICA COOK
Belief is half of healing.
PATRICK NESS
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations
STEPHEN R. COVEY
People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither co...
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS
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NINA BLACKWOOD This is a shockwave. Bulls are going to have to sit back and ask if they have baked in too much good...
RICHARD WILLIAMS There are just a few radicals who push these things. I think we need to get back to the basics and l...
JACK JORDAN
I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.
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KAMANDA NDAMA We will push back from now on.
NED LATHROP When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
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RICHARD WALLACE
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER We are really happy. We came back after four years to an international event and we are not scared o...
MAURIZIO MARGAGLIO
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ROB GRONKOWSKI Sit back and enjoy. And remember: Always be careful what you say around your kids.
DONNA CHAPMAN GILBERT I would sit back and still keep up with parties, but for the most part, the plan is for this to be a...
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DALE EARNHARDT JR
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He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen...
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I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one i...
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I'm a gun owner.
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Judiciary is where my passion is.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been sug...
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one stan...
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Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and th...
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Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damag...
PATRICK KAVANAGH
Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected wor...
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figur...
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The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public iss...
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesti...
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PATRICK KANE We're here to win. We're not here just for the experience.
PATRICK KANE I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about wha...
PATRICK KANE Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and gettin...
PATRICK KANE I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
PATRICK KANE There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister - especially hockey players.
PATRICK KANE I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.
PATRICK KANE I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter.
PATRICK KANE I love scoring for the fans, for the team, for myself. That's not to say that I won't pass i...
PATRICK KANE The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the othe...
PATRICK KANE I love to play the game, love to be around the rink, and love to joke around with my teammates and h...
PATRICK KANE Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not li...
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PATRICK GEDDES But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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PATRICK FUGIT
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
PATRICK FUGIT I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
PATRICK FISCHLER I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.
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PATRICK FISCHLER I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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PATRICK EWING
Most of the fans will still be Knick fans.
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PATRICK EWING
Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
PATRICK EWING
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PATRICK EWING
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Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
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PATRICK EWING
Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
PATRICK EWING I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.
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PATRICK DEWITT Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family me...
PATRICK DEWITT I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend m...
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PATRICK DEWITT When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make...
PATRICK DEWITT I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised...
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PATRICK DEWITT If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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PATRICK DEWITT By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ...
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PATRICK DEWITT At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi...
PATRICK DEWITT I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&...
PATRICK DEWITT I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
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PATRICK DEWITT All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - const...
PATRICK DEWITT Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it ...
PATRICK DEWITT Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of cra...
PATRICK DEWITT I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting...
PATRICK DEWITT As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don...
PATRICK DEWITT I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am ...
PATRICK DEWITT I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
PATRICK DEWITT
When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the sta...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pr...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
PATRICK DEMPSEY
In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it wi...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
PATRICK DEMPSEY
The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you c...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comed...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
PATRICK DEMPSEY
I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to rid...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.
PATRICK DEMPSEY
People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDre...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as o...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect l...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it w...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
PATRICK DEMPSEY When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
PATRICK DEMARCHELIER I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that b...
PATRICK DEMARCHELIER Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.
PATRICK DEMARCHELIER Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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