"Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why……" — Robin Hobb
"Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?"
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113 Quotes by Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb has 113 quotes on this site.
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I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.
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I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before…
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I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out…
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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
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Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your…
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The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send.
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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.
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Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they…
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THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties,…
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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life…
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There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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When we anticipate, we're the happiest. Unless you're on antidepressants. The reason you take antidepressants is because you can't anticipate.…
— Lewis Black
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are…
— F. H. Bradley
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Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other…
— Buzz Aldrin
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Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a…
— Oleg Cassini
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The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles…
— Sun Tzu
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money…
— Maimonides
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which…
— Agnes Repplier
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty,…
— Colin Powell
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I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit…
— Sean Penn
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