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“Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Looks Children Important Home Mother Asks Parent Emotional Depends Picks Fulfilled Stay At Home Emotional Life Plath

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.”

Ifs Felt Picks Not Happy

Author:Benjamin Walker

“One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.”

Author:Chris Ware

“It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the secular fashion of the immediate generation before us and immerse oneself in that as your tradition. That's why Christian artists so often seem to be a generation late.”

Seems Age Christian Desire Artist Culture Christianity Generations Fashion Stupid Late Picks Tradition Oneself Relevant Secular Short Sighted Unchristian

Author:Calvin Seerveld

“When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.”

Knows Inspirational Feels Children Ideas Feelings Young Know How Buddhism Picks Lifetime Impression Sensitivity Innate Young Children

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away.”

Way Light Understanding Meditation Seeing Buddhism Picks Planes Understanding Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The aggregates that we pick up in the human plane will be washed away, and we will become pure spirit, pure light, pure love, and pure ecstasy.”

Humans Light Spirit Meditation Buddhism Pure Picks Planes Ecstasy Pure Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you had to pick between one or the other, I can't say which one is better; but I would certainly say, in my orientation, the light of samadhi is all-pervasive. Samadhi will free you.”

Ifs I Can Light Buddhism Picks Orientation Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Pick up a stone that feels good to you and is small enough to hold in one hand. Consider how long that stone has been around and what enormous pressure it has experienced. Draw strength from its long history.”

Feels Long Has Beens Enough Hands Draws Picks Stones Pressure Enormous Feel Good Considerate Be Considerate

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.”

Want Picks Phones Want Something Garlands

Author:Lorna Luft

“I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public's idea of this myth comes from a million different places... I became committed to recontextualizing it all so it all worked in one story.”

Ideas Different Stories Millions Picks Committed Myth Different Place

Author:Max Landis

“When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.”

Bits Pieces Picks Guitar Storytelling Melody Bits And Pieces

Author:Ray LaMontagne

“Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.”

Want Lost Style Picks Instruments

Author:Stacy London

“I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me.”

People School Picks Accents Wise People

Author:Michelle Ryan

“I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.”

Found Months Six Picks Train Splits Six Months Truck Memphis Pick Me Pick Me Up

Author:John Lee Hooker

“There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.”

World Feels Trying Kids Picks Instruments Ministers Changing The World Yards Yard Sale

Author:Dave Grohl

“I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like I'm a greater being. I take my kids to school, pick them up, go to the grocery store. I'm a mother, and my kids mean more to me than even being an artist.”

People Looks Mean Kids School Mother Artist Song Greater Picks Stores Groceries Being An Artist Grocery Stores

Author:Faith Evans

“There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.”

Decision Picks Tough Election Good Times Governance Tough Decisions Good Governance Unpopular Decisions

Author:Jairam Ramesh

“The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.”

Use Military Duty Picks Flying Outcomes One Word

Author:Chuck Yeager

“I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.”

Song Player Picks Shining

Author:John Mayall

“The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.”

World Whole Picks Whole World Scabs

Author:Peter Beard

“It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.”

Source: Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up

“It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.”

Years Said Bits Happened Paper Picks Accents Papers Deliberate Rejecting Formative Years

Author:Joss Stone

“Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.”

Way Picks Work Out New Directions Pick Yourself Up

Book:The Testing Guide

Source: The Testing Guide

“A very wise dog woman once told me that dogs find owners, not the other way around. They pick you and they choose to stay with you. In that way, they are also giving you the end of their life. The deeper the bond, the harder it is to say good-bye. I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.”

Knows Way Giving Ends Suffering Wise Dog Amount Picks Harder Deeper Mourning Owners Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye Very Wise

Book:You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness

Source: You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness

“I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.”

Play Practice Week Picks Guitar Spontaneity

Author:Ace Frehley

“And this ain't no place for the weary kind This ain't no place to lose your mind This ain't no place to fall behind Pick up your crazy heart and give it one more try”

Giving Trying Mind Heart Kind Fall Loses Behinds Crazy Picks Weary Your Crazy

Author:Ryan Bingham

“There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around and it made good TV.”

Made Faces Easy Happened Tvs Picks Clinton Eras Villain Columbine Different Eras

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s a housing bubble and you’ll have a reasonable discussion. Tell an Australian and you’ll have World War III. Been there, done that!”

Thinking World Two War Done Picks Optimistic Discussion War Of The Worlds Reasonable Australia World War Ii Bubbles World War I Housing Australian Been There Done That Housing Bubble

Author:Jeremy Grantham

“I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.”

Can Do Picks Priorities

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.”

Self Able Player Taught Musician Picks Self Taught

Author:Walter Becker

“I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.”

Language Wish College Picks Sign Language

Author:Candace Kita

“I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.”

Said Ends Age Young Difficult Personality Dad Battle Picks My Dad Nuclear Engineers Young Age Negotiating Scapegoat

Author:Faith Prince

“You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.”

Looks Class Skills Picks Shots

Author:Billy Joe Saunders

“Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.”

Men Age Certain Teach Picks Our Society Unmarried Personal Failure

Book:We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.”

Given Picks Our Family Make The Best Of It

Book:Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two

Source: Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two

“Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.”

Way Use Hands Sound Picks Guitar

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“If people throw stones at you, pick 'em up and build something.”

People Ifs Picks Stones Ems Rapper

Author:LeCrae

“I have no preferred team, but everyone wants to go No. 1 in the draft. Even the guy who gets picked last in the draft wants to go No. 1. But I just know that whoever picks me, I'm going to be excited to play for that team, and I can't wait to see myself in 'Madden' on that team.”

Knows Want I Can Play Lasts Guy Waiting Team Picks Excited Pick Me Madden

Author:Robert Griffin III

“Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her principles for you, no matter how much you claim to love her. She will stand fast in her demands for total acceptance. If you can't receive her, she will recognize you as a false lover and leave you. And when you hear that door slam, it will take every tear in your eye, every ounce of blood in your veins, and all the nerve in your heart to win her back.”

Ifs Heart Matter Eye Winning Liberty Principles Doors Blood Acceptance Tears Lovers Demand Picks Claims Nerves Dislike Harsh Veins Mistress Slam Like And Dislike Tears In Your Eyes

Author:William H. Masters

“Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.”

I Can Play Song Bits Rocks Couple Musician Picks Guitar Singers Rock And Roll

Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.”

Years Play Kids Games Team Streets College Son Picks Decided Let Me Parks My Son Hockey Backup Lacrosse Goalies Hockey Team Riverside

Author:John Katzman

“I really enjoy playing the piano. I took lessons throughout middle school, but I had to drop the lessons. I actually got too busy, but I hope to pick up the lessons when I'm in college if I can.”

Ifs I Can School Enjoy Middle College Lessons Picks Busy Piano Too Busy Middle School

Author:Miranda Leek

“place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.”

“As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!”

Years Humans Emotion Journey Youth Picks Harsh Manhood Human Emotions

Author:Nikolai Gogol

“Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.”

Lasts Beauty Break Picks Twenties Locks Break Through

Book:The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint

Source: The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint

“Creative people are like a wet towel You wring them out and pick up another one.”

People Creativity Creative Picks Wet Creative People Towels

Author:Charles Revson

“I never tell students they cannot read a book they pick up, but I do guide them toward books that I think would be a good fit for them. I think of myself as a reading mentor-a reader who can help them find books they might like.”

Thinking Book Helping Might Would Be Reading Students Reader Fit Picks Guides Mentor

Book:Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

Source: Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

“Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows of the axe. Millions of trees have perished. The homes of the wild animals and birds have been desolated; the rivers are shrinking, and many beautiful landscapes are gone forever. And why? Because men are too lazy and stupid to stoop down and pick up their fuel from the ground.”

Source: The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…

“Everything is dependent on your ability to stop thoughts. The longer you can stop your thoughts in meditation, the faster you will evolve, the more power you will pick up and the more knowledgeable and balanced you will become.”

Ability Meditation Picks Faster Evolve Dependent Balanced Knowledgeable

Author:Frederick Lenz