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“Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add to that extraordinary flow of interpretations of the world.”

World Want Writing Long Able Reader Tradition Flow Add Extraordinary Interpretation

Author:Rosellen Brown

“A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.”

Hate Fate Shame Add Dread Scorn

Book:The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius

Source: The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius

“TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.”

Seems Policy Tvs Ten Cameras Add Pounds

Author:Kitty Carlisle

“This year, the United States renewed funding of reproductive healthcare through the United Nations Population Fund, and more funding is on the way. The U.S. Congress recently appropriated more than $648 million in foreign assistance to family planning and reproductive health programs worldwide. That's the largest allocation in more than a decade - since we last had a Democratic president, I might add.”

“We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.”

Ifs Suffering Universe Pleasure Buddhism Add

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Wise leaders know that if an individual doesn't count, the institution doesn't count for much either. Put mathematically, if the individual is a zero, together a lot of zeros add up to a whole lot of nothing.”

Ifs Knows Whole Together Individual Leadership Leader Wise Institutions Add Zero Wise Leaders

Author:Diane Dreher

“Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.”

Writing Conscience Add Our Time

Author:Martin Firrell

“contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.”

Doe Trouble Add Misfortunes Contemplating Misfortunes Of Others

Book:Five Passengers From Lisbon

Source: Five Passengers From Lisbon

“Enlightenment, the old teachers say, adds nothing, except maybe the recognition of a need for and a commitment to the work that still needs to be done.”

Needs Stills Done Work Teacher Enlightenment Commitment Add Recognition

Book:Endless Path: Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination: Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and Daily Life

Source: Endless Path: Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination: Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and Daily Life

“There are days when either filmmaking feels like an insurmountable practice - here's a lot of obstacles in the way to make it happen - or you think, "What does this all add up to?" You don't know what to do with the footage, and you've asked a lot of people for their time and a lot of people to be patient with you. And then you lose faith that you can actually make a worthwhile story out of this.”

People Thinking Knows Way Feels Doe Stories Happens Loses Practice Add Patient Obstacles Worthwhile Filmmaking Be Patient Up To You Make It Happen Insurmountable

Author:Debra Granik

“I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven.”

Thinking Kind Littles Sound Band Add Bass Distortion

Author:Nikki Sixx

“Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.”

Humans Ideas Different Consciousness Destiny Human Nature Capitalism Flow Add Alternatives Grain Accumulation

Author:Adrienne Rich

“I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.”

Ifs Way Book Messages Blue Add Colour Pens Signatures Signing

Author:John Grisham

“General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.”

Night Our Lives Add Evening Quotations

Author:Suetonius

“Wine lovers know that putting some effort into understanding and appreciating wine pays big dividends. Skillful tasting unlocks wine's treasures. It adds an extra dimension to the basic routines of eating and drinking, turning a daily necessity into a celebration of life.”

“The doctor, if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage, may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the vigour he adds to nature's forces.”

Ifs Wells May Force Forget Stage Doctors Add Patient Shock Assistants

Author:Herbert Ratner

“When we do not reject our suffering, or add anything to it, pain is simply pain. It is what we add to our pain that turns it into suffering.”

Pain Suffering Turns Add Rejects

Book:Zen and the Art of Falling in Love

Source: Zen and the Art of Falling in Love

“The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When we can bear reality thoroughly, suffering is over. Pain may exist, but it is only pain. Suffering is what we add to pain.”

Knows May Facts Reality Able Pain Suffering Our Lives Bears Add Torment Pain Suffering

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

“Shoes make an outfit. You can throw on a crazy shirt and crazy pants but you add those shoes - done.”

Done Crazy Add Shoes Shirts Pants

Author:Russell Westbrook

“Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, it is true, but it is to feed upon the chaff. I am sorry to add that they who are always speaking ill of others are also very apt to be doing ill to them. It requires some talent and some generosity to find out talent and generosity in others, though nothing but self-conceit and malice are needed to discover or to imagine faults. It is much easier for an ill-natured man than for a good-natured man to be smart and witty.”

Thinking Men Self Half Imagine Talent Needed Easier Smart Add Faults Sorry Ill Witty Clever Generosity Satire Speakers Corn Malice Conceit Being Smart Satirical I Am Sorry Am Sorry

Author:James Sharp

“Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.”

Strong Black Race Pressure Add Burden Supposed To Be Our Family Black Women

Author:Aunjanue Ellis

“It has been said that a rolling stone gathers no moss. I would add that sometimes a rolling stone also gathers no verifiable facts or even the tiniest morsels of journalistic integrity.”

Has Beens Said Sometimes Facts Integrity Stones Add Rolling Rolling Stones Moss Journalistic

Author:Ed Helms

“I always like to start with a matte base then add shimmer.”

Add Shimmer

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.”

Men Whole Names Fine Add Manners Titles Nobility Courtesy Ornaments Chivalry

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.”

May Wish Reader Add Incidents Wish You I Wish You Would

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including His Tour to the Hebrides, Correspondence with Mrs. Thrale, &c. With Numerous Additions

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including His Tour to the Hebrides, Correspondence with Mrs. Thrale, &c. With Numerous Additions

“If all other risk factors are normal, and you exercise moderately, your risk of having high CRP is one in 2000, .. A person who is a little overweight, with blood fats and cholesterol a little elevated, maybe with a little bit of high blood pressure -- we didn't used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.”

Ifs Thinking Way Littles Persons Bigs Used Bits Deals Risk Blood Exercise Normal Little Bit Pressure Add Fats Factors Big Deal Overweight Blood Pressure Cholesterol High Blood Pressure

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.”

Believe School Waiting Community Hours Responsibility Childhood Students Communication Achievement Six Add Don't Believe Priorities Plus Gaps Early Childhood Achievement Gap

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.”

Dream Add Invention

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

“A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. There is great wisdom in this... but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs. Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat.... Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.”

Thinking Should Ideas Hard Belief Opinion Beats Prejudice Add Privilege Holes Bats Cricket Arses Great Wisdom

Author:Tim Minchin

“Im always trying to find connections between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.”

Trying Art Seems Art Is Connections Add Always Trying Juxtaposition

Author:Pat Metheny

“Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it's fun. While it's happening it's fun. I feel tall.”

Feels Kind Ends Shows Used Fun Hurt Practice Feet Happenings Tough Add Dancing Tall Heels High Heels

Author:Ariana Grande

“Im a huge fan of The Odd Couple, yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.”

Trying Kind Guy My Own Fans Huge Couple Add Welcome Odd Comparison Neurosis Odd Couple

Author:David Alan Basche

“The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to bad habits, and takes force from good example. And, surely, there is nothing in such associations; as wicked affinities will insure to the sinner in the future state, to incline him to repentance.”

Men Heart States Force Sin Example Habit Conscience Add Intellect Wicked Sinner Repentance Association Bad Habits Affinity Good Examples Transgression Incline

Author:Edward Thomson

“The three most important rules in selecting the right piece of real estate are location, location, location (and when we have periods of tight money I would add terms, terms, terms).”

Important Real Three Term Pieces Periods Add Estates Location

Book:Money dynamics for the new economy

Source: Money dynamics for the new economy

“The only problem is whether one adds life to one's years or years to one's life.”

Years Problem Age Add

Book:Ex-wife

Source: Ex-wife

“A straight dark-green Manchu gown, with black trimmings, is my favorite. For it just about takes off those fifteen pounds I don't need and adds those three inches I do.”

Needs Three Black Dark Clothes Green Add My Favorite Pounds Inches Fifteen Gowns Trimming

Author:Buwei Yang Chao

“Winter is coming, we know what's coming with it. We can learn to live with the wildlings, or we can add them to the army of the dead.”

Knows Army Add Winter Winter Is Coming

Author:Jon Snow

“I've been into weight training for many, many years and you add to that a good dose of cardio, don't overindulge, and you can do all right.”

Years Can Do Training Weight Add Dose Cardio Weight Training

Author:Stephen Lang

“I feel like any experience you can have which adds to your repertoire of things you've done and can add to your character - I'm willing to try.”

Feels Trying Done Character Willing Add Willing To Try

Author:Christa B. Allen

“If people of one''s own side have good conduct, it adds power to oneself. The misconduct on the contrary render one powerless. The enemy taks advantage of it. A skilled statesman never allows enemy to win over.”

People Ifs Political Winning Sides Enemy Advantage Add Oneself Contrary Powerless Statesmen Misconduct Taks

Author:Chanakya

“That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to the national debt. Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 - that is what it amounts to, with interest.”

People Thinking Way Want Should States Wish Interest Wealth United Pay United States Stupid Amount Add Investing Debt Compelled Loan National Debt Old Ways

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.”

Moral Principles Virtue Concerned Add Determined Proof Disposition Prudence Defining Present Day Moral Virtues

Author:Aristotle

“The Liberal Democrats will add a heart to a Conservative government and a brain to a Labour one.”

Heart Government Brain Add Democrat Conservative Labour

Author:Nick Clegg

“Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.”

Ifs World Needs Successful Stones Add Divided Cake

Author:Maeve Binchy

“At Zappos, one of our core values is to Pursue Growth and Learning. In the lobby of our headquarters, we have a giving library where we give away books to employees and visitors that we think will help with their growth, both personally and professionally. I can't wait to add The Compound Effect to our library.”

Thinking Giving I Can Book Helping Values Waiting Growth Effects Add Library Core Pursue Employee Compounds Visitors Core Values Headquarters

Author:Tony Hsieh

“You gotta remember: we're musicians we're just crazy people who can't get along sometimes. I've definitely come to the table with my knife in my pocket a couple of times; you know how it is. It's part of being human. Now add fame and money and all that rock and roll craziness to it - we're lucky we don't eat each other in this industry!”

People Knows Humans Sometimes Remember Know How Crazy Rocks Industry Couple Fame Lucky Musician Tables Add Pockets Knives Rock And Roll Being Human Craziness Crazy People

Author:Corey Taylor

“It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.”

War Today President Taken Add Engagement Deployment

Author:Jon Huntsman, Jr.

“I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.”

People Way Self Feelings Found Wish Millions Cost Ordinary Add Environmental Relative Righteous Ordinary People Handful Self Righteous Staggering

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Every time you post something online you have a choice. You can either make it something that adds to the happiness levels in the world-or you can make it something that takes away.”

World Choices Levels Add Posts Online

Book:Girl Online: The First Novel by Zoella

Source: Girl Online: The First Novel by Zoella

“And also--to add to my problems--my parents and relatives kept telling me how they'd grown up feeling so close to the Almighty that they'd spoken to Him on a daily basis as one would speak to a friend and how, now and then, God had actually spoken back to them in the form of miracles.”

Feelings Problem Form Speak Parent Bases Miracle Add Now And Then Almighty

Author:Victor Villasenor

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