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Spoiling Quotes (page 8)

The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!” (Analects 6.11) Confucius
...[W]riting stories not only involved secrecy, it also gave her all the pleasures of miniaturisation. A world could be made in five pages....The childhood of a spoiled prince could be framed within half a page, a moonlit dash through sleepy villages was one rhythmically empathic sentence, falling in love would be achieved in a single word—a glance. Ian Mcewan
She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn't altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn't shop like that or dress like that. It was because that was what girls were supposed to be like. That was what men - people, everybody - thought they should be like. Beautiful, treasured, spoiled, selfish, pea-brained. That was what a girl should be, to be fallen in love with. Then she would become a mother and she'd be all mushily devoted to her babies. Not selfish... Alice Munro
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty."
A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Epicurus quote: "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not."
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. Epicurus
One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war. Laurell K. Hamilton
If what one finds is made of pure matter; it will never spoil. and one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing in return. Paulo Coelho
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves...."
Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. Robert A. Heinlein
Tha? we seemed to have decided without saying a wor? might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy. Stephen King
Yeah,” said Iggy. “But what now? Let’s do something fun.” I guess being on the run from bloodthirsty Erasers and insane scientists wasn’t enough fun for him. Kids today are so spoiled. James Patterson
You know how it's going to end, but instead of spoiling things, that somehow increases your fascination. It's like watching a kid run his electric train faster and faster and waiting for it to derail on one of the curves. Stephen King
Elsa Maxwell quote: "Nothing spoils a good party like a genius."
Nothing spoils a good party like a genius. Elsa Maxwell
To be a mass tourist, to me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to experience. It is to impose yourself on places that in all non-economic ways would be better, realer, without you. It is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is inescapable as it is... David Foster Wallace
You've been four of the dearest, sweetest, goodest girls who ever went together through college,' averred Aunt Jamesina, who never spoiled a compliment by misplaced economy. L. M. Montgomery
If what you found was made from pure matter, it will never spoil. And you can come back one day. If it was just one moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you will find nothing on your return. But you would have seen an explosion of light. And that alone would already be worth the journey. Paulo Coelho

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