"Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles……" — Judith Guest
"Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness."
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Judith Guest
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38 Quotes by Judith Guest
Judith Guest has 38 quotes on this site.
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For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.
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Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it…
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Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend.…
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And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.
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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how…
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People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.
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Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.
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Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that…
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Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s…
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Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced.…
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I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.
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I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.
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More Action Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
— Hannah Arendt
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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