A Quotes
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“Anyone can say the love someone....It's loving someone enough to let them go that will prove that love.”
“Anyone can say they love someone. But love--real love--is felt and earned... It's more than words. It's action...it's sacrifice. Love is a great many things.”
Source: Winterdream: A Retelling of The Nutcracker
“Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Anyone can see beauty, but only a few special ones can feel true love.”
“Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.”
Source: Reflections
“Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.”
Source: Heaven and hell
“Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.”
Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture
“Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.”
“Anyone can sell their body, but it takes much more determination and skill to learn a trade and excel in that specific field. It is unfeminine to willingly participate in sex work.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write.”
“Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.”
“Anyone can sleep with a guy in 24-48 hours, but you're sending the wrong signal to the guy if you do that.”
“Anyone can smile for a photo, but who is still smiling after the selfie?”
“Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.”
“Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.”
“Anyone can spin a victory, it's a total loss that demands creativity”
Source: And That’s Why I’m Single
“Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.”
“Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.”
“Anyone can star a marathon. Only the strongest will finish it, even after they fall.”
Source: Lifeblood
“Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change”
“Anyone can stay true to your face, it's the people who stay true behind your back that really count.”
“Anyone can stay up late, but only the disciplined can get up early.”
“Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course”
Source: The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You
“Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Don't ever underestimate the power of planning. You can't make your vision come to life unless you outline each goal-driven step at a time. And you can't reach your full potential unless you plan how to make the most of your purpose and passion. When you look around and see people who are the captains of their ship, invariably they have taken pains to chart their successful course through life.”
“Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.”
Source: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
“Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.”
“Anyone can suffer. But joy--that's hard. Ask about joy.”
Source: On Fragile Waves
“Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.”
“Anyone can swim with the current; the real self-made leader is the one who swims against it.”
Source: Modified Leadership
“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.”
Source: The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings
“Anyone can take a false step And fall forever, Everyone is different. Where are they now, all those lost souls?”
“Anyone can take anything and make it bigger, the only thing that matters is knowing the person intimately that you are talking to”
“Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That's really where the work of the artist begins.”
“Anyone can talk, but not everyone can produce the results.”
“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.”
Source: A Writer's Notebook
“Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as an adult and whether you have complexes or whether you need to prove yourself or all that kind of stuff and yet the mother in a traditional family who has raised a child never makes it in the history books.”
“Anyone can train hard. Do you have the discipline to recover?”
“Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.”
“anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.”
Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices
“Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.”
“Anyone can want something; it's those who believe in their goals that achieve.”
“Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.”
“Anyone Can Whistle, subtitled 'A Wild New Musical,' opened in New York on April 4, 1964, at the Majestic Theater. The reviews were generally negative, and Laurents defended himself with the rationalization that Walter Kerr of the Herald Tribune 'didn't like the show because he was a Catholic. The idea that there's no miracles drove him up the wall.' Such a self-protective imagination made Laurents more resilient than Sondheim, who was so discouraged that he talked about quitting the theater entirely. The show closed after nine performances, ultimately becoming a cult musical--meaning that if everyone who says they saw it, actually saw it, it would have run for years.”
Source: Balancing Act: The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury
“Anyone can win a fight—when the odds—are easy! It's when the going's tough—when there seems to be no chance—that's when—it counts!”
Source: Amazing Spider-Man (1963-1998) #33
“Anyone can win a slam-dunk contest. The real Superman is dead. He was assassinated by Pat Riley. I'm the Big Cactus now and ready to roll again.”
“Anyone can win two fights in one night, but it is the third fight that tells you if you have steel balls or not.”
“Anyone can wrestle until they are tired.”
“Anyone can write a holy book, if he feels god is calling him to do so”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.”
“Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.”