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“For each of us has a perch on the tree. After we are gone, that perch is marked by a notch, permanent, yes, but with its edges muting over time, assuming the tree is ever growing. Years from now someone can see that you were here, or there, and although you had little conception or care for the wider branching, in the next life there might be a sigh of wonder at how quietly flourishing it all was, if never majestic.”

Ifs Years Littles Might Care Next Wonder Gone Growing Tree Assuming Edges Permanent Conception Sigh Flourishing Majestic Next Life Notches

Book:On Such a Full Sea: A Novel

Source: On Such a Full Sea: A Novel

“Coaching staff: I know there's days you look at that film and you want to kill me. I'm not playing defense, taking bad shots, getting too many techs. But you always believe that I can be the guy. Through the tough times, you guys never left my side... That's something that I really appreciate and I never want to take you guys for granted. I thank you so much for being part of my life. And not just on the basketball court, but giving me talks about growing as a man first, and a basketball player next.”

“It's ok to fail. Failing does not shape your personality; it's how you react upon your failure. Do you dust yourself off and mope or do you dust yourself off and come back stronger the next time? Eventually you will win. It may not happen the next time, it may take a little time but you will win in the end.”

May Littles Doe Ends Happens Motivational Next Winning Failing Personality Shapes Stronger Dust Next Time Little Time Dust Yourself Off

Author:Tiger Woods

“The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a person's race.”

People Needs Persons Enough Humor Able Political Next Race Generations Taxes Rate Budgets Assets Senate Transfers Political Humor

Author:George W. Bush

“The U. S. is headed toward a period of business depression... beginning within the next two years, which may exceed that which preceded the War. ... The only thing that will save us is a new gold policy or the discovery of a new process or additional gold fields. If the fall [of gold production] is not prevented by design or accident we shall throttle business, wringing out all profits and experiencing all the evils of deflation.”

Ifs Years May Two War Fall Evil Next Process Policy Design Fields Periods Discovery Gold Investing Profit Productions Accidents Two Years Exceed Throttle Deflation New Processes

Author:Irving Fisher

“We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.”

Next Moral Virtue Definitions Formal

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work keeping in mind the welfare of future generations, not the next election.”

Should Mind Reality Government Next Generations India Election Notion Contrary Welfare Governance Future Generation Prevailing Good Governance Bad Politics

Author:Narendra Modi

“It's not something to complain about, but just the major difference between college and the pros is that in college you're guaranteed four to five years so long as you don't do anything criminally and in the pros you're guaranteed one day because you can be cut the next.”

Years Long Next Differences Five Four Cutting College One Day Majors Complaining Five Years

Author:Robert Griffin III

“It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.”

Men Should Mean Girl Next New York Standing Casts Limitation Queens Als De Niro Queen Elizabeth

Author:Ellen Barkin

“I'm a big fan of pops of color, but I thought I would take that to the next level and do a color-blocked Rolex. This watch is the perfect accessory whether you're wearing a tee and jeans or a well-tailored suit.”

Wells Bigs Next Perfect Levels Watches Fans Color Pops Suits Jeans Accessories Next Level Blocked Tees Tailored Rolex Tailored Suits Pops Of Color

Author:Brad Goreski

“The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.”

Lasts Next Generations Worst Entertainment Grades The Next One Worst Fear

Book:Flight Behaviour

Source: Flight Behaviour

“So, Wesley Clark is running for president. Pretty amazing guy. Four star general, first in his class at West Point, supreme commander of NATO, saw combat in Vietnam, won the bronze star, silver star, the purple heart for being wounded in battle. See, I'm no political expert, but that sounds pretty good next to choking on a pretzel, falling off a scooter and dropping the dog.”

“The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to receive the holy charge which we are cherishing to deliver over to them; that in establishing an institution of wisdom for them, we secure it to all our future generations; that in fulfilling this duty, we bring home to our own bosoms the sweet consolation of seeing our sons rising under a luminous tuition, to destinies of high promise; these are considerations which will occur to all.”

Source: Jefferson: Writings

“The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.”

Age Next Effort Youth Fit Gratitude Rewards Dues Esteem Governors

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

“Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.”

Ifs Way Want Play Moments Might Faces Life Is Lying Song Next Stuff Listening Depends Thousand Comfortable Folks Vary Folk Songs Truth About Life

Book:Chronicles

Source: Chronicles

“But who wants to hang aroundfrat guys ? I want to be with guys who have more on their minds than where the next keg party is. I want to be with guys who care about making this world a better place-the way Andrew does. I want to be with guys who know that what's important isn't the size of a girl's waistband but the size of her heart-like Andrew. I want to be with guys who are able to see past a girl's outward appearance, and into her soul-like Andrew.”

Source: Queen of Babble Bundle with Bonus Material

“I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next.”

Thinking Made Next Decision Brave

Author:Maeve Binchy

“I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I dont necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.”

Want Years Heart Whole Wanted Next Easy Goes On Stones Mindset Bless Rolling Touring Rolling Stones Ruts Old Things Same Old Thing

Author:Paul Weller

“I didnt go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.”

Next Rocks Military Moon Picks Program Profession Officers Nasa Notches

Author:Jim Lovell

“Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly remade herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.”

Feels Seems Girl Courses Next Doors Type Singing Cat Folks Bother Urban Like Her Kitties Kitty Cat

Author:Liz Phair

“I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.”

Mind Next Shapes Projects

Author:Paolo Sorrentino

“I don't mean to be overly sensitive or anything like that, but you just have to take a minute in every day, and just reflect on where you are, and just realise what you've got, because you just never know where the next huge change in your life is going to come from.”

Knows Mean Life Is Next Minutes Huge Sensitive Where You Are Realising Huge Changes

Author:Corey Taylor

“A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You.”

Song Next Strong Generations Foundation Setting Settings Hopefully Next Generation

Author:Corey Taylor

“WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.”

Next Differences Sleep Standards Advantage India Arguing Enjoyed Zone Labour Software Engineers Unfair Forums Competitive Advantage Time Zones

Author:Jairam Ramesh

“I believe there is a place where the restless souls wander. Burdened by the weight of their own sadness, they cannot enter heaven.... And so they wait, trapped between our world and the next, endlessly searching for a way to rid themselves of their pain- in the hope that somehow, someday they will be reunited with the ones they love. If two people really love each other, nothing can keep them apart.”

People Ifs World Way Believe Two Soul Pain Next I Believe Heaven Waiting Sadness Weight Wander Someday Our World Trapped Restless Love Each Other Reunited

Author:Sarah

“We can't predict all the struggles and storms in life, not even the ones just around the next corner, but as persons of faith and hope, we know beyond a shadow of any doubt that the gospel of Jesus Christ is true and the best is yet to come.”

Knows Persons Next Jesus Christ Struggle Doubt Shadow Jesus Christ Corners Storm Hope And Faith Best Is Yet To Come

Author:L. Tom Perry

“Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.”

Kind Littles Lasts Next Bits Term Walks Steps Little Bit Next Steps

Author:Joe Nichols

“That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting.”

Stills Matter Might Next Waiting Minutes Hunger Hunting Fossils

Book:Remarkable Creatures: A Novel

Source: Remarkable Creatures: A Novel

“Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.”

Mind Mean Made Young Dies Next Pleasure Known Minutes Innocent Inevitable Our Family Attachment Next Day Incarnation Next Life

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. Were the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that were down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.”

Thinking World Years Wells Care Today Next Wish Interest Leader Couple Down And Affair Get Back World Today

Author:Jon Huntsman, Jr.

“I dont know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent Im hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.”

People Knows May Book Next Know How Picks Editors Scare Pants

Author:Christopher Darden

“When youre young, you dont think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You dont think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.”

Thinking Long Young Next Term Week Competition Long Term Injury Next Day Next Week

Book:Only with Passion: Figure Skating's Most Winning Champion on Competition and Life

Source: Only with Passion: Figure Skating's Most Winning Champion on Competition and Life

“Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.”

“It's better to bet on this life than on the next.”

Next This Life

Book:Happy Death

Source: Happy Death

“There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don”

Next Player Shame Beaten

Author:Steve Waugh

“I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show.”

Years Mind Looks Ideas Character Shows Wanted Next Seasons Next Year Off Season Offseason

Author:Michael Shanks

“For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.”

Years Two Different Lasts Next Space Months Six Training Thirds Ships Command Flight Stations Categories Six Months Next Year Rockets Orbit Space Flight

Author:Chris Hadfield

“A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.”

Writing Next Cases Doors Forgiving Neighbor Locals Managers Branches Boldness Next Door Neighbors

Book:How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays

Source: How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays

“I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.”

Should Moving Used Next Technology Advantage Tools Spending Our Time Staying Bloggers Staying Power

Author:J. I. Packer

“Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures.”

Believe Book Seems Values Next I Believe Secret Progress Hundred Scripture Volume Tire Pilgrim Freshness

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Within 2 years Im predicting...that youre going to see a suitcase nuke in this country. Youre probably going to see a release in a few years of something communicable. & I am predicting that you will see a lot of conventional bombings...in the next year or so.”

Years Country Next Release Conventional Next Year Bombing Suitcases Predicting Nukes

Author:Alex Jones

“I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.”

Kind Used Next Sleep Morning Bed Deserve Legs Trance Katie Cockroaches Hypnotic

Author:Byron Katie

“In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.”

Stills Book Next Chance Written Offers Second Chance Chances Are Second Thoughts No Second Chances

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.”

Way Next Week Finding Happiness Next Week

Author:Marshall Goldsmith

“The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next”

People Mind Next Difficult Generations Habit Essentials Tradition Technique Experiments Characteristics Habits Of Mind

Book:The Scientific Outlook

Source: The Scientific Outlook

“Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not be too surprised at anything. They will have been through it all before in fictional form, and will not be too paralyzed with astonishment to try to cope with contingencies as they arise.”

World Trying Has Beens Matter Form Next Class Century Reader Arise Astonishment Paralyzed Make Out Contingency

Author:L. Sprague de Camp

“When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.”

Knows Men May Next Silence He Man Authority Sitting Fruit Uneasy Chromosomes Fruit Flies

Author:Brand Blanshard

“I jog in the morning and then write for about two hours. There are times when I'm really excited and can't wait to get back to it. But there are days when I don't know what's coming next, and I really have to force it.”

Knows Writing Two Next Force Waiting Hours Morning Excited Get Back

Author:Louis Sachar

“I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257 bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.”

Ifs World Feels Looks Persons Hard Enough Next This World Higher Standing Including Bells Towers Bumps Disappointing Right Person

Book:All the Bright Places

Source: All the Bright Places

“I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.”

People Believe Looks Made Might Next Mistake Successful Next Time Being Positive

Author:Tadashi Yanai

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