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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
Well, within a phrase. And with a series of phrases, you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question.
I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.
I see things differently when I'm focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.
Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.
Not every show has to work equally well. It just has to work better than any competitor because then we can outbid for the content.
Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.
You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well.
He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.
Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be driven; it can only be attracted.
To sell well is to convince someone else to part with resources—not to deprive that person, but to leave him better off in the end.
Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.
You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.
I'm very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I've always got on just as well with women.
There's no perfect [date]. There's no agenda which has to be fulfilled. So really it's about the company and how well you get along.
It's always good in science to say "Well how do you know that?" and "Are you really sure?" and "Could there be an exceptional case?"
There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.
Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk.
We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?
Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly.
I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
Women feel safe with me as well they should, because not only am I morally objected at going too far, but physically I cannot do it.
But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.
[David Harker asked: Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?] Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
Robbie turned to the house again. "Got a flashlight?" "Of course not." I smirked. "That would make me too well prepared, wouldn't it?
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
My parents always told me, 'Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.' They told me to make sure that you are happy.
I still want to do what I want to do, but we also have to think about some sense of protecting the business that's out there as well.
Now some they do and some they don't And some you just can't tell And some they will and some they won't With some it's just as well.
It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
Well, it was war - I could not have carried on as an administrative officer if I had let myself be swayed emotionally by my feelings.
If you were a gentleman, you would offer to buy me one as well." "If you were a lady, you would have waited for me to make the offer.
Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.
Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.
For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.
I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.
In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.
You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.
So we can say, reverently, that God never gave us the Law to keep: he gave us the Law to break! He well knew that we could not keep it.
It's a cliché, but also a deep truth (as cliché's tend to be), that you can't love another person very well if you don't love yourself.
Donald Trump was very receptive. Funny. Cracked some jokes. And understand it very well. And said he was in that he would work with us.
A friend is not only someone who you can confide in, it is someone who can mirror the trust you have shown by confiding in you as well.
All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either.
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.