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Richard Jefferies Quotes

There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.

Richard Jefferies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: November 6, 1848 - August 14, 1887

Topics

People World Will Endure First Rush

I always feel terrified whenever I put my work out there to be seen, to be scrutinized. I think it's a very vulnerable thing that we are asked to do.

Work Think Feel Always Out Seen

Being in the limelight with 'Glee,' I've definitely felt pressure to stay fit. But honestly, you have to ignore it.

Jenna Ushkowitz

Pressure Ignore You Being Stay Fit

To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.' That what I do is somewhere on the line between speaking to you as I am now and actual song. And the things I love when I say one of those poems to myself - it's a little bit like singing, it's a little bit like speaking.

Love Myself I Am Me Singing Song

At one point, I recognized that Warren Buffett, though he had every advantage in learning from Ben Graham, did not copy Ben Graham but, rather, set out on his own path and ran money his way, by his own rules... I also immediately internalized the idea that no school could teach someone how to be a great investor.

Learning Path Great Money School

To my mind, it is better to have regrets about the good aspects of your former marriage because you were able to work past some of your accumulated resentments than to have no regrets because you had to ratchet up the hostility to get out in the first place.

Stephanie Coontz

Work Good Marriage Past Mind Better

My position in the army is as sport instructor. This allows me generous time off for travel and competition. I also receive a monthly salary from the army.

Time Travel Competition Me Army Off

A good writer is always a people watcher.

Good People Always Writer

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

Me End Shortcuts Real Same Mess

People who are bipolar, they kind of latch onto things that are fanatical sometimes.

People Sometimes Kind Things Bipolar

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

William Shakespeare

Stars Future Destiny Hold Our

I was a very happy kid. I didn't get new bikes very often. We ate a lot of chicken legs for dinner. But I never felt in want of anything. I wasn't cognizant until much later of the discrepancy between what we had and what other people had.

Happy People Dinner New Want Legs

Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after.

Richard Flanagan

Love Truth Great Moment Eternity

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