If I Stay Quotes (page 3)

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• home
• homes
• truths

If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home. Clifford Geertz

• focus
• ultimate
• keeping

If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right. Jeff Bezos

• fall
• old
• stupid

If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet. Frank Darabont

• time
• moments
• hand

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer

• go
• willfulness
• willing

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going. Jeanette Winterson

• life
• best
• light

If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick her out. Then I could compare and see which had been the best thing to do. But we only live once. Life's so light. Like an outline we can't ever fill in or correct... make any better. It's frightening". Milan Kundera

• people
• mind
• mindfulness

If stone-sober people can fuck like they're out of their minds -- can actually be out of their minds while caught in that throe -- why shouldn't writers be able to go bonkers and still stay sane? Stephen King

• together
• forever
• heart

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever. A. A. Milne

• red
• weird
• beer

If the thing bites down much harder I might wig out and demand beer... stay away from the phone, watch the red arrow... this typewriter is keeping me on my rails, without it I'd be completely adrift and weird. Hunter S. Thompson

• love
• manly
• hidden love

If we're to come to love a man, the man himself should stay hidden, because as soon as he shows his face--love vanishes. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• lesson
• wishes
• evening

If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky. Alice Hoffman

• business
• home
• mindfulness

If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads? Henry David Thoreau

• food
• fear
• avoiding

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the relgion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. James A. Michener

• play
• hungry
• art

Stay hungry. It worked for Michelangelo, it worked for Picasso, and it works for a hundred thousand artists who do it not for love (although that might play a part) but in order to put food on the table. If you want to translate the world, you need to use your appetites. Does this surprise you? It shouldn’t. There’s no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art. -- Stephen King: Duma Key Stephen King

• moving
• water
• mirror

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. Bruce Lee