Best Recovered Sayings
120 Recovered quotes by 111 unique authors
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I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.
— Carlos Fuentes
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Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one…
— Tamora Pierce
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In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must…
— Claude Bernard
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I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost…
— Bill Pullman
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I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.
— Max Brooks
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In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like…
— Patsy Cline
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When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture…
— Jonathan Hale
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known…
— George Eliot
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For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it…
— Hilary Mantel
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Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even…
— Jenny McCarthy
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One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.
— Mercedes McCambridge
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I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know…
— Max Muller
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
— Thomas Paine
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I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second…
— Keanu Reeves
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced…
— Eliot Spitzer
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When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
— Dorothy Thompson
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Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of…
— Julian Baggini
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That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.
— Marguerite Duras
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Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.
— Nora Roberts
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Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.
— Charles Dickens
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