"How presumptuous they had both been never to……" — Cecelia Ahern
"How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid."
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231 Quotes by Cecelia Ahern
Cecelia Ahern has 231 quotes on this site.
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There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in…
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Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.
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This house isn't mine anymore, but the memories are; the memories can't be sold. The building that housed my once-upon-a-time…
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There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and…
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This love thing awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never even knew existed.
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Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often…
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Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?
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It’s not easy remembering the good times.
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I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that…
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Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them;…
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"What is it with people these days?" he hisses... "In my day, something just was. None of this analysis a…
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Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our…
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More Achievement Quotes
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go…
— Neil Armstrong
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
— Marcus Aurelius
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
— Irving Babbitt
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All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of…
— Christian Bale
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how…
— Albert Bandura
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend…
— Ethel Barrymore
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
— Saul Bellow
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You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
— Irving Berlin
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