"Life's too short for anxious score-keeping" — Teju Cole
"Life's too short for anxious score-keeping"
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Teju Cole
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38 Quotes by Teju Cole
Teju Cole has 38 quotes on this site.
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I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.
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Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of…
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To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both…
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I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant…
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Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air…
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But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to…
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It is dangerous to live in a secure world.
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I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.
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I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for…
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The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
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It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.
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We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
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I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's…
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no…
— Felix Adler
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We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are…
— Andrew Bernstein
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
— Josh Billings
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If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but…
— Tom Brady
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My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh,…
— Jeff Bridges
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for…
— Edmund Burke
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst…
— Lord Byron
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