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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.
Como un angel," I whisper. "Is our game over?" she asks nervously. "It's definitely over, querida. 'Cause what we're gonna do next is no game.
The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.
I just feel like I'm going to be criticized regardless of what I do next, so I might as well do something that I feel really passionate about.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
After you've dated someone it should be legal to stamp them with what's wrong with them so the next person doesn't have to start from scratch.
Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.
On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.
I change my style maybe every month. I'm, like, punk one month, ghetto fab the next, classy the next. I'm just young and finding out who I am.
I really love going to shows where I'm sandwiched between people, and you don't know if the sweat on you is yours or the person's next to you.
I don't mind getting my hands dirty, and I don't mind getting to the truth of a situation and saying, 'You're right, you're wrong, next case.'
It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.
You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive.
The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three days.
The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
Where there's a storm, from one moment to the next, God can bring calm. That's why I have faith. I confide in him and give myself to his hands.
I see Hillary [Clinton] as a calculating politician without any vision. It depends what the next thing is that they calculate she needs to say.
Theta crashed next to them on the thick zebra-skin rug. “I’m embalmed.” “Potted and splificated?” “Ossified to the gills. Time for night-night.
I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.
Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.
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For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.
Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.
There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.
The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
The recount in Michigan is over. The election is over. Our next president is Donald J. Trump. Winning once was nice. But winning twice was huge.
I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.
Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost.
I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!
So many times, people are afraid to start something because of fear of failing. But it can be fabulous - because it leads you to the next thing.
Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.
People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.
Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.
I try and eat good. On the road, that's next to impossible. And we eat a lot of unhealthy things when we're in Texas - that's what you do there.
I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing.
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.
Bombay is the ideal microcosm of India, of that whole sense of inequality where you could have the biggest skyscrapers next to the poorest slums.
There was that sense of we had turned the corner. All of that time, all of that work, all of that effort – we were poised to make that next jump.
One listless day followed another, with nothing to distinguish one from the next. You could have changed the order and no one would have noticed.
It's exciting not knowing what I'm doing next, but it won't be long before I'm going to feel like I needed to be doing something, whatever it is.
About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting.
Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.
I don't think that the next generation should fear just being who they are rather than confirming to an expectation of what they are meant to be.
The trouble about most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation, or hope to be one in the next.
I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.
My next door neighbor just had a pacemaker installed. They're still working the bugs out, though. Every time he makes love, my garage door opens.