"While I fear that we're drawn to what……" — J. R. Moehringer
"While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us."
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18 Quotes by J. R. Moehringer
J. R. Moehringer has 18 quotes on this site.
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Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to…
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Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.
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To be a man, a boy must see a man
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the…
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While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
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Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.
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I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate…
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It takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower. You…
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History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.
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I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't…
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Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.
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A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.
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More Abandon Quotes
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one of 715 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
— Teresa of Avila
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
— Abu Bakr
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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon…
— Javier Bardem
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance…
— Gary Bauer
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
— George W. Bush
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign…
— David Byrne
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the…
— Albert Camus
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