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Pearl S. Buck Quotes

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 26, 1892 - March 6, 1973

Topics

Good Struggle Men People Evil Then

I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place.

Growth Hope Discipline Focus End

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

Truth Children People Grow Honor

I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over to the jazz side. They flirt with it, but they don't quite marry it.

Age Responsibility People Me Feel

Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse.

Focus Better Environment Mood Role

I snack on sauteed peanuts, a whole fruit, lots of cheese - especially goat cheese - with multi-grain crackers and dark chocolate. These are my weaknesses. I make it a point to eat every two hours.

Fruit Chocolate Dark Cheese Two Eat

You want to live your life and live it just as fully and as deeply as you can. That's your deep well of reserve. That's where you get all your - the fodder for your work.

Life Work Live Deep You Want

If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself. But if it's a slow pace, and I get beaten by a kicker who leaches off the front, then I'll always wonder, 'What if...?'

Steve Prefontaine

Live Myself Slow Lose Wonder I Can

My grandmother is one of the biggest inspirations of my life. She was my biggest fan, and she made sure everybody knew it. Her never-ending joy was infectious, and there wasn't anyone who could beat her at partying and having fun.

Life Fun Joy Having Fun My Life She

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

Morning Sea Beautiful Great Wife

People are in a hurry. They don't want to look at a long list of ingredients. Cooking is terribly hard work.

Work Hard Work Cooking People Look

A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there's all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys, but none come to mind just now.

Life Time Mind World Book Perfect

Sexual performance problems, such as impotence and frigidity, are 70 to 90 percent changeable. But a homosexual who wants to be a heterosexual - that's close to unchangeable. And a transsexual - say a man who believes he's really a woman in a man's body - is completely unchangeable; you'd have to change the body to conform to the psyche.

Martin Seligman

Change Woman Man Performance Body

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