Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
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MONICA TOOLEY It was in the defects that they [servants] invariably acquired that I learned of my own natural, inv... MARCEL PROUST Let me see—what are my other shortcomings? I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth fo... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Does Facebook behave like a tool in my hand, or a firehose designed to spew at me in accordance with... ERIC S. RAYMOND Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious histor... HERODOTUS Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious histo... HERODOTUS Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a... THOMAS FULLER There were some obvious things we had to make up for when Kate left. It forced the other girls to co... KARRMAYNE KING Now when you say staring, are you including yourself in this assessment? I recall you taking in the ... STACEY O'NEALE I haven't met that many women, human or angelic, who actually like to drive. In my experience they s... TAD WILLIAMS The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me. ALEX TIZON I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty... MICHAEL ARNDT My mind is like a little house, My peers break into. They rearrange my furniture, And... MARGO T. ROSE In my own case, I employed this experiment mainly in order to seek for the barrier, if any, which di... J.W. DUNNE I don't understand my sudden obsession with staring at her, but i can't seem to stop. COLLEEN HOOVER You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst;... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I don't like doing gigs. We're pretty good at it, but it takes too much time and energy. Time and en... ANDREW ELDRITCH Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy ... ALAN BRADLEY All these e-mails going around, they're all myths, they all make very little sense. They sound good,... RICHARD MCGRATH Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem o... GEORGES BERNANOS Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem ... GEORGES BERNANOS There is a similarity in the kinds of characters I gravitate to that goes back to my earliest years ... EUGENE LEVY Problems provide us with lessons that our own defects of character wouldn't let us learn any other w... JIM GENOVESE It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day,... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We can’t get in and she doesn’t come ou... MALORIE BLACKMAN I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. MARY HARRIS JONES Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it conta... CARLISLE FLOYD I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of thi... HALE IRWIN I decided that in order to become a big famous rock star, I would need to write my very own songs in... KURT COBAIN Of course I like to watch myself bat. After every innings, match, series, I do watch my own videos w... ROHIT SHARMA It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of ... ULYSSES S. GRANT You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of mysel... AARON STANFORD I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. WILLA CATHER I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have
to live than other things do. WILLA SIBERT CATHER I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. WILLA SIBERT CATHER Half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly... FKA TWIGS The defects of our youth sustain us in old age. MARTY RUBIN My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and... TOM HODGKINSON I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better th... JEFF LINDSAY After we'd filmed one series of 'Kiss Me Kate,' everyone was saying: 'The guy's ... DARREN BOYD I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colon... MAHMOUD ABBAS My characters were...rebelling against something...My own bad writing. I wouldn't do for my characte... JOHN SCALZI They are of significant concern. They've been linked to all kinds of health effects including birth ... CHARLES GRIFFITH ... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they c... NELL FREUDENBERGER I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, a... GEORGE ELIOT I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I w... BAI LING I focused my life on things that are a little more dependable, like my family and things that actual... ADAM SCOTT I hate shows, personally, where people stand around tossing stuff at each other, and any character c... BILL LAWRENCE At the end of the night they all seemed so happy. Maybe it was just because they hadn't seen each ot... DITO MONTIEL I didn't give myself any time to let it set in. I didn't go through any depression, and it's not som... CRAIG LEWIS To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid tow... T.S. ELIOT But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm ... DAMIEN HIRST I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON I don't think it's any reflection on that hospital. They did all the right things. They ultimately g... LOUIS CATALDIE Those who search for the defects of others don’t know their own defects. VIKRANT PARSAI I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I l... A. S. BYATT At Christmastime, whenever I feel overwhelmed and a little out of sorts, all I have to do is think o... PEGGY TONEY HORTON I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come b... HELEN OYEYEMI I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all. BONNIE RAITT No, my superstition might be not having any. Come playoff time, you like to get into routines, but t... ADAM DENNIS The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other th... BERTRAND RUSSELL I think of Kate Moss whenever I think of someone who did the bridesmaid thing right. They were all i... CHRISTINE TEIGEN I, for one, get rather annoyed when I settle into a nice bubble bath with some Belgian chocolate and... MIRIAM NADEL All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and ... ARUNDHATI ROY The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other ... BERTRAND RUSSELL We all do have our own reasons for being alone; in my case, I just don’t like wasting my time on s... M.F. MOONZAJER I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other. GARY SHTEYNGART Don't let your doubts in your own abilities infect other peoples aspirations for themselves. JEFFREY BENJAMIN I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fal... JESSICA LANGE They dwell in my light, while I dwell in unbearable darkness, the source of that light. UMBERTO ECO Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one tur... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Obviously when we get Kate going, everybody gets caught up in the draft, so to speak. We all have wo... JASON RODENHAVER I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story l... ELIF SAFAK Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA One of my favourite actresses is Kate Winslet. She plays strong female characters and seems like she... EMILY PERKINS We're aware of the ramifications of this series for everybody who's involved. But that's all anybody... A.J. PIERZYNSKI Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever ... ELIZABETH GILBERT There's something to be said for any boy growing up among lots of other boys who like to play ba... BEN PLATT Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qu... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Kate Moss is my friend...I think it's like everybody is being bad to her. It's not the first time it... NAOMI CAMPBELL I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon... GORDON B. HINCKLEY So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started wo... BILLY SHERWOOD All for naught. That's the way I look at it. I can't dwell on things I did well in the game, knowing... ANTOWAIN SMITH I have one outstanding trait in my character, which must strike anyone who knows me for any length o... ANNE FRANK
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KATE CHRISTENSEN In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and sti... KATE CHOPIN The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penet... KATE CHOPIN Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of... KATE CHOPIN When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills. KATE CHOPIN But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exce... KATE CHOPIN To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac... KATE CHOPIN I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the... KATE CHOPIN A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect ... KATE CHOPIN It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating ... KATE CHOPIN She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the s... KATE CHOPIN There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. KATE CHOPIN It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire s... KATE CHOPIN No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is tha... KATE CAPSHAW The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers. KATE CAPSHAW The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that... KATE CAPSHAW We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, my... KATE BUSH I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space... KATE BUSH I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being. KATE BUSH I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking. KATE BUSH Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'U... KATE BUSH I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestr... KATE BUSH