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Pearl S. Buck Quotes

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Beauty Order Shape Depends Which

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

Future Present Understand Way Try

We try to do that for stories - we try to say, 'OK, here's the message, here's the theme, here's the good people and the bad.' Life is not nearly like that.

Stephen Henderson

Life Good People Good People Bad

They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one.

Busy Bank Two Local Except Very

As a parent, you just want to really make sure your kids understand what you are trying to say as much as their maturity level will allow them to.

Maturity Parent Trying You Say Want

I think the price of the food can totally alter the perception of it. If I know something is expensive and the ambience is fancy, the food just invariably tastes a little better - and I feel like I'm getting away with something. But I'm also bored by most 'fancy' food.

Food Perception Think Better Feel

I worked for a private investigative agency briefly. I rarely had the opportunity to snoop.

Opportunity Agency Private Had

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

Joseph Auslander

Men Peace World Living Thanksgiving

What I've noticed in this game is how EA has even duplicated my moves and my style of play perfectly. It is really incredible and a lot of fun to play.

Style Fun Game Play Incredible Even

Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Sky Travel Man New Way Channels

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

Sylvester Stallone

Generosity Violence Admit Want Guys

If I were talking to someone, I'd look at their eyes, not at the blemish on the side of their face. But as soon as you open up that photo on a 30-inch monitor, you'd say, 'Oh my gosh, where did that come from?'

Eyes Face Someone Talking You Look

I was always the one pushing the envelope, stirring things up, sometimes getting in trouble. I was always the first one to get a spanking as a kid.

Trouble Sometimes First Kid Always

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