Trained Quotes

873 quotes by 742 authors

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
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
We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering. — Ram Dass
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
The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper. — Billy Collins
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
One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it. — Robin Hobb
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
Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer. — Thomas Harris
Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together. — Robert A. Heinlein
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
Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls. — Adrienne Rich
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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