"A single action can cause a life to……" — Anita Shreve
"A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go."
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45 Quotes by Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve has 45 quotes on this site.
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To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she…
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I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?
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Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals…
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Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.
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I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.
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The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity,…
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Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up…
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In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she…
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There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.
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the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
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I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to…
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Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected…
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More Action Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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