"We pamper the present like a spoiled child,……" — Robert Grudin
"We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs."
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Robert Grudin
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35 Quotes by Robert Grudin
Robert Grudin has 35 quotes on this site.
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The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an…
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Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their…
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The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work,…
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True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold.…
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Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural…
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That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines…
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Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.
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At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats,…
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Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.
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We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of…
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If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds.…
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The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
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