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Been Quotes by Cheryl Strayed
- You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out…
- Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.
- I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she…
- My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to…
- She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she'd made her…
- Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That perhaps being amidst…
- The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we…
- ...the other half of rising—the very half that makes rising necessary—is having been nailed to the cross.
- I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a…
- There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour