Quotes with fault-finding

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  • Helen Schucman When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.
    Helen Schucman
    American psychologist
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  • Bob Beamon When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.
    Bob Beamon
    American track and field athlete (1946 - )
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  • Carol Ann Duffy When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.
    Interviewed in The Guardian, December 4, 2005. [2]
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Carl Sagan When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Henry Miller Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Emily Dickinson Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Bria Skonberg With my trumpet voice, I love gritty, plunger, growly sounds. But vocally, I love Anita O'Day - a raspier but definitely softer sound. Part of the fun has been finding vehicles or writing for both of those sounds.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Francoise Sagan Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
    Francoise Sagan
    French writer (1935 - 2004)
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  • Bill Hicks Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years......thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?
    Sane Man
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Eric Allenbaugh Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem.
    Eric Allenbaugh
    American motivator
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler You can't learn to take a punch. Whether you have a glass chin or you don't, the only way of finding out is having it land.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Arundhati Roy You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Brandi Chastain You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Agnes Smedley But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Simone Weil Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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