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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
Ingrid BergmanRead
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The steps all break down to one simple sentence: Make art that connects with enough folks for you to earn a splendid living.
Jack WhiteRead
I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.
Mark HelprinRead
Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.
Jorge AmadoRead
Girls see enough of this body that we can't imitate, that we'll never be able to obtain, these unrealistic expectations...it's better to look strong and healthy...
Jennifer LawrenceRead
As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing.
Tarana BurkeRead
What makes climbing great for me, strangely enough, is this life-and-death aspect. It sounds trite to say, I know, but climbing isn't just another game. It isn't just another sport. It's life itself. Which is what makes it so compelling and also what makes it so impossible to justify when things go bad.
Jon KrakauerRead
Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!
Dr. SeussRead
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
Billy SundayRead
Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.
Danilo KisRead
For states that support terror, it is not enough that the consequences be costly-they must be devastating
George W. BushRead
One can never have enough socks
J. K. RowlingRead
For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.
Zig ZiglarRead
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
Rene DescartesRead
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
Desmond MorrisRead
There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin FranklinRead
But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don't love and don't have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
Carson MccullersRead
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream
Virginia WoolfRead
Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.
Patti SmithRead
I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.
F. Scott FitzgeraldRead
My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about time for writers - particularly those who are genuine artists - to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.
Anton ChekhovRead

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