Quotes with woman-being

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  • John Cheever The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Robert Fitzgerald The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To ''make a beeline'' for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. ''I guess I'll split'' is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.
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  • George Bernard Shaw The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Butler The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ben Whishaw The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Lech Walesa The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.
    Lech Walesa
    Polish trade union leader, activist and president (1943 - )
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  • Cam Newton The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Marguerite Duras The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Augusto Roa Bastos The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
    Augusto Roa Bastos
    Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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  • Andrew Vachss The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
    Andrew Vachss
    American crime fiction author (1942 - )
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  • Adolf Galland The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Irving Berlin The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
    Irving Berlin
    American composer and lyricist (1888 - 1989)
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  • Arthur Laffer The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Ian McEwan The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Bob Kane The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Caskie Stinnett The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
    Source: Out of the Red (1960)
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  • Philip K. Dick The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
    Philip K. Dick
    American science fiction writer (1928 - 1982)
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  • Billie Jean King The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Franklin P. Jones The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
    Franklin P. Jones
    American journalist (1908 - 1980)
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