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Then Quotes by Sloane Crosley
- For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the…
- I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I…
- Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking; even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet…
- I don't do emoticons unless I'm making a big deal out of them. I'll type out, 'This is so amusing it makes me want to…
- I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this unnatural medium of…
- Like most citizens of popular and international urban centres, I don't take advantage of the cultural opportunities. Perhaps this comes from growing up in suburbia.…
- The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would…
- Everyone has been in a social situation where you say something and it goes unnoticed, then someone else says the same thing and everyone laughs…
More Then Quotes
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe