Trained Quotes
873 quotes by 742 authors
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I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and…
— Janet Fitch
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It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
— Ram Dass
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It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.
— Billy Collins
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I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that…
— Toni Morrison
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
— Robin Hobb
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How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught…
— Kristin Cashore
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Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.
— Thomas Harris
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Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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There aren't any syringes." Red Sox came over and held a sterile pack out. When she tried to take it from him, he kept a…
— J R Ward
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Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.
— Adrienne Rich
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I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching.…
— Barry Lyga
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Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and…
— H.G. Wells
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Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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a guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. You don't have…
— Jodi Picoult
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We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I."…
— Peter Drucker
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So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with someone else. I…
— Jodi Picoult
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