Quotes with letting

  • And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
  • Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
  • When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.

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  • Brendan Dooling Society puts so much emphasis on outer appearance, but being confident in yourself and not letting others' opinions affect you is pretty amazing.
    Brendan Dooling
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Cass Canfield A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.
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  • Laurence Sterne All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Bruce Nauman And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Bob Crosby But just as I was ready to call it quits, I got the necessary money from a third party, who had been instructed by Bing to help me out, without letting me know where the help came from.
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  • Lao-Tzu By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Brenda Brathwaite From initial concept to final build, 'Train' was close to a year in development. Much of this was research and letting the dynamics of the project come to the surface.
    Brenda Brathwaite
    American game designer
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  • Robert Cecil Day-Lewis How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.
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  • Ken Keyes Jr I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
    Ken Keyes Jr
    American personal growth author and lecturer (1921 - 1995)
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  • V.S. Naipaul I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Brad Carson If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand.
    Brad Carson
    American lawyer and politician (1967 - )
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  • Bill Nye If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Gerald G. Jampolsky Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
    Gerald G. Jampolsky
    American psychiatrist, Lecturer, writer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Mick Jagger It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
    Mick Jagger
    English singer-songwriter, composer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Bernadette Devlin It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
    Bernadette Devlin
    Irish civil rights activist (1947 - )
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  • Roger Von Oech It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.
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  • Camille Paglia Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
    As quoted in Sex from Plato to Paglia : A Philosophical Encyclopedia (2006)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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