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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
#quotes #amy-tan #family
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #attitude
proverbiosYou can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to. ~Carol Plum Ucci
#quotes #carol-plum-ucci #believe
Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #life #weeping
That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #worry
As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
#quotes #sarah-lacy #economy #china
If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
#quotes #geraldine-brooks #books #past
All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
#quotes #eugene-field #happiness #hardship
In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team. ~Jon Krakauer
#quotes #jon-krakauer #team #trust
Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
#quotes #warren-farrell #relationship #alcohol
Bambi, to a kid, was scary. ~Billy Crystal
#quotes #billy-crystal #children
The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanese-proverbs #conformity #change
When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs
There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
#quotes #isaac-asimov #the-bicentennial-man #freedom #mind
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
#quotes #mark-twain #health #medicine #books
I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
#quotes #bill-gates #philanthropy #humanity
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
#quotes #louis-d-brandeis #free-speech
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
#quotes #william-makepeace-thackeray #writing #history #books
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
#quotes #ben-jonson #reality
There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA. ~Mitch Lasky
#quotes #mitch-lasky #games #free-to-play
I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
#quotes #johnny-vegas #journalism #wikipedia
One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanese-proverbs #strength
People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. ~Peter O'Toole
#quotes #peter-o-toole #50s #60s
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
#proverbs #jewish-proverbs #weeping