"It is a paradox that as we reach……" — Gail Sheehy
"It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes."
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69 Quotes by Gail Sheehy
Gail Sheehy has 69 quotes on this site.
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The delights of self-discovery are always available.
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Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.
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By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth.…
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My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better...to have a purpose…
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has…
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When you have self-respect, you have enough.
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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary…
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Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.
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To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
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The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.
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According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people…
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More Finishes Quotes
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one of 90 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
— Georg Buchner
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Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played…
— Sholom Aleichem
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My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.
— Jim Carrey
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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
— Roald Dahl
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It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
— John Wooden
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When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes…
— Johnny Miller
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finishes up.
— Les Dawson
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I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be…
— George Wald
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One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look…
— Ernst Gombrich
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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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