George Sand - Quotes

 Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect 

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Fyodor Dostoevsky - Quotes

 I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea. 

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George W. Bush - Quotes

 I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully. 

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The Condemned - Quotes

 Ian Breckel:
Well, where are you from back in the states then, huh?
Jack Conrad:
Alaska
Ian Breckel:
Alasks. Whereabouts?
Jack Conrad:
About 80 miles north of Anchorage. Little fishing town. You probably heard of it. It's called Fuck Your Mama.
 

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Saving Private Ryan - Quotes

 Captain Miller:
Private, I'm afraid I have some bad news for ya. Well, there isn't any real easy way to say this, so, uh, so I'll just say it. Your brothers are dead. We have, uh, orders to come get you, 'cause you're going home.
Pvt. James Frederick, Ryan:
[starts sobbing] Oh, my God, my brothers are dead. I was gonna take 'em fishing when we got home. How - How did they die?
Captain Miller:
They were killed in action.
Pvt. James Frederick, Ryan:
No, that can't be. They're both - That... That can't be. My brothers are still in grammar school.
Captain Miller:
You're James Ryan?
Pvt. James Frederick, Ryan:
Yeah.
Captain Miller:
James Francis Ryan from Iowa?
Pvt. James Frederick, Ryan:
James Frederick Ryan, Minnesota. [the whole crew looks embarrassed]
Pvt. James Frederick, Ryan:
Well, does that - does that mean my brothers are OK?
Captain Miller:
Yeah, I'm sure they're fine.
 

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Michael Clayton - Quotes

 Marty Bach:
[on a cell phone conversation] Marty Bach, how can I help you?
Bridget Klein:
Marty, hi. It's Bridget Klein. Look, we're going with a story tomorrow about a settlement in the U-North defoliant case. Do you want to comment?
Marty Bach:
The case you're referring to is now as it has been for the last six years: Pending and unresolved. Until such time as our client has their day in court, and the plantiffs come to their senses and drop the suit, I'll have nothing of value to tell you.
Bridget Klein:
Come on Marty, you're closing the U-North case, you're settling it, I know that. Okay? I know you're up there with like 600 people jamming this thing through.
Marty Bach:
Well, here's what I know: Your deadline was twenty minutes ago. So either you're fishing for a story, or you're trying to get out of writing a retraction. In either case I wish you the best of luck. [he hangs up]
Marty Bach:
Where the fuck is Karen Crowder?
 

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Sweet Home Alabama - Quotes

 Wade:
The law is the law and she has done nothing wrong.
Jake:
I supposed shoplifting steaks from Winn Dixie's okay?
Melanie Carmichael:
Oh, Oh! I took 'em back and you know it!
Jake:
What about that incident of vandalism in the stockyard... totally her!
Melanie Carmichael:
Like I could tip a cow... by myself!
Jake:
Wade, isn't there some outstanding for whoever drove your mama's tractor into the fishing pond?
Melanie Carmichael:
[horrified realizing what he meant] OH!
 

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Journey: A Journey to the Heart of the Journey - Quotes

 Aaron, Ben:
[singing] Walking and hiking and fishing and fighting to keep our survival without nature's reprisal over 80 whole mi-eles and woah... no human's ever done that before.
 

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Scent of a Woman - Quotes

 
[Headmaster Trask drives into the Baird School driveway in his brand-new Jaguar. He gets out, to hear a voice on a loudspeaker]
Jimmy Jameson:
[on loudspeaker, but unidentified] Mister Trask is our fearless leader. [students hear this and gather, looking on at Trask]
Jimmy Jameson:
A man of learning, a voracious reader. He can recite "The Iliad" in ancient Greek, while fishing for trout in a rippling creek.
Trent Potter:
[Trask grins slightly, trying to figure out where the voice is coming from] Endowed with wisdom, of judgement sound, nevertheless about him, the questions abound. [We now see the same three Baird guys who set up this prank the night before; Harry opens the valve to an oxygen tank connected to a large balloon on a lamppost as Trent passes the microphone to him]
Harry Havemeyer:
How does Mister Trask make such wonderful deals? Why did the trustees buy him Jaguar wheels? He wasn't conniving, he wasn't crass... he merely puckered his lips... and kissed their ass! [balloon spins around to reveal a cartoon bearing the words being spoken; the students laugh and mock Trask]
Harry Havemeyer:
[Trask pulls out his car keys and opens the Jaguar door, then jumps up to try to pop the balloon with the key. He misses on the first try. On the second try, he succeeds, and a flood of white paint splashes down onto him and all over the car. The students applaud loudly and shout obscenities at him as this catastrophe concludes with Trask kicking the car door closed and attempting to dry his face with handkerchief]
 

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St. Bernard of Clairvaux - Quotes

 Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives. 

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Happy Feet - Quotes

 
[Mumble has dived off a cliff to pursue the "alien" fishing boat]
Lovelace:
I'm gonna be telling your story, Happy Feet, long after you're dead and gone!
 

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Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer - Quotes

 Grandma Spankenheimer:
[about the inflatable tree] Where's the jabbing yourself with pine needles? Hanging ornaments? The old fashioned smell of a genuine Douglass Fur?
Grandpa Spankenheimer:
If you want old fashioned smells, I'll get my fishing boots.
 

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Terence McKenna - Quotes

 The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.



It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down - sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray.



At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological metaphor of idea chasing.

But, sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward. 

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Oscar Wilde - Quotes

 Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. 

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Hard to Kill - Quotes

 Lt. Kevin O'Malley:
Let me tell you something, Sonny... one day when this is all over, you, me, and your pop are going to rent us a fishing boat, and catch us the biggest fish that ever swam the seas. And I'm not talking goldfish, either.
Sonny Storm:
The last time I went fishing with Pop, we caught an old tire.
Lt. Kevin O'Malley:
[laughs] Not this time, Sonny. We're going to get us a big fat tuna.
 

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Quotes

 Steve Zissou:
Wolodarsky, go get the keys to that fishing boat, and throw them in the water. No, wait. They might have another set. Just blow it up.
 

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Ernest Hemingway - Quotes

 Anyone can be a fisherman in May. 

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Crank Yankers - Quotes

 Arthur Johnson:
Listen, I've been around this shiny blue marble a few times and i've never met a unisex person. You're an innie or an outie understand? You either got a fishing hole or a fishing pole.It's franks and beans or fish taco, Capiche?
 

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Finding Nemo - Quotes

 Dory:
Have you seen a clown fish swim by? It looks just like him. [points at Nemo]
Nemo:
But bigger.
Crab:
Yeah, I saw him, Bluey, but I'm not telling you where he went, and there's no way you're gonna make me. [Dory holds Crab out of water for the seagulls to see]
Seagulls:
Mine. Mine. Mine.
Crab:
Ahh! All right! I'll talk! I'll talk! He went to the fishing grounds!
 

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Daredevil - Quotes

 Franklin "Foggy" Nelson:
Your client, Mr. Lee, he made his first payment.
Matt Murdock:
Oh, that's great, you should be very happy.
Franklin "Foggy" Nelson:
Yeah, it's fantastic. He paid in fluke. Fluke is a fish, Matt. Did you know that? Because I sure as hell didn't.
Matt Murdock:
Mr. Lee is a good man, and he... he doesn't have a lot of money, and he goes fishing on the weekends, so I guess that's...
Franklin "Foggy" Nelson:
Yeah, well, I go salsa dancing on the weekends, but I don't shake my ass to pay my phone bill, you know what I'm sayin'?
 

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After the Sunset - Quotes

 
[Stan is putting suntan lotion on Max]
Stan Lloyd:
Don't you want me to coat everything? [Max's fishing pole starts to move]
Max Burdett:
My pole!
Stan Lloyd:
No way, man! I'm only doing your back!
 

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Waitress - Quotes

 Jenna:
Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that's all they do. They don't pull away. They don't look at your face. They don't try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness in it.
 

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Laozi - Quotes

 Manifest plainness,

Embrace simplicity,

Reduce selfishness,

Have few desires. 

Tags: detachment   envy   greed   illusions   selfishness   simplicity     
Edith Sitwell - Quotes

 I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish. 

Tags: eccentricity   eels   fish   goldfish   individuality     
Ernest Hemingway - Quotes

 You roll back to me. 

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The Devil Wears Prada - Quotes

 Andy Sachs:
[seeing Nigel with a black gown] I love that! Will that fit me?
Nigel:
A little Crisco and some fishing wire and we'll be in business.
 

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Richard Bach - Quotes

 Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.

Listen to it carefully. 

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Mervyn Peake - Quotes

 As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean. 

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Franz Kafka - Quotes

 Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more. 

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Terry Pratchett - Quotes

 Once we were blobs in the sea, and then fishes, and then lizards and rats, and then monkeys, and hundreds of things in between. This hand was once a fin, this hand once had claws! In my human mouth I have the pointy teeth of a wolf and the chisel teeth of a rabbit and the grinding teeth of a cow! Our blood is as salty as the sea we used to live in! When we're frightened, the hair on our skin stands up, just like it did when we had fur. We ARE history!Everything we've ever been on the way to becoming us, we still are. Would you like the rest of the story?



I'm made up of the memories of my parents and my grandparents, all my ancestors. They're in the way I look, in the color of my hair. And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think.  

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The World Is Not Enough - Quotes

 James Bond:
I suppose we all have to pay the piper sometime. Right, Q?
Q:
Oh, pipe down, 007!
James Bond:
Was it something I said?
Q:
No, something you destroyed. My fishing boat! For my retirement, away from you!
 

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Izaak Walton - Quotes

 As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler. 

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George Bernard Shaw - Quotes

 A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. 

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Theodore Dreiser - Quotes

 Many individuals are so constituted that their only thought is to obtain pleasure and shun responsibility. They would like, butterfly-like, to wing forever in a summer garden, flitting from flower to flower, and sipping honey for their sole delight. They have no feeling that any result which might flow from their action should concern them. They have no conception of the necessity of a well-organized society wherein all shall accept a certain quota of responsibility and all realize a reasonable amount of happiness. They think only of themselves because they have not yet been taught to think of society. For them pain and necessity are the great taskmasters. Laws are but the fences which circumscribe the sphere of their operations. When, after error, pain falls as a lash, they do not comprehend that their suffering is due to misbehavior. Many such an individual is so lashed by necessity and law that he falls fainting to the ground, dies hungry in the gutter or rotting in the jail and it never once flashes across his mind that he has been lashed only in so far as he has persisted in attempting to trespass the boundaries which necessity sets. A prisoner of fate, held enchained for his own delight, he does not know that the walls are tall, that the sentinels of life are forever pacing, musket in hand. He cannot perceive that all joy is within and not without. He must be for scaling the bounds of society, for overpowering the sentinel. When we hear the cries of the individual strung up by the thumbs, when we hear the ominous shot which marks the end of another victim who has thought to break loose, we may be sure that in another instance life has been misunderstood--we may be sure that society has been struggled against until death alone would stop the individual from contention and evil. 

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Avi - Quotes

 The cure for unhappiness...It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say. 

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Khaled Hosseini - Quotes

 He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips. 

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Ernest Hemingway - Quotes

 And chase hard and good and with no mistakes and do not overrun them. 

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Gordon B. Hinckley - Quotes

 Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts. 

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Silver City - Quotes

 Henry:
[Holding the hand of a corpse just fished out of the lake with a fishing lure dangling from it] I'm surprised you caught anything with this lure!
 

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Gretchen Rubin - Quotes

 The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit. 

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Elizabeth Gilbert - Quotes

 But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings. 

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Daniel Goleman - Quotes

 Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action. 

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P.G. Wodehouse - Quotes

 If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine. 

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P.G. Wodehouse - Quotes

 I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology. 

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Alexandre Dumas - Quotes

 Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt. 

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Cabin Boy - Quotes

 Old Salt in Fishing Village:
Man, oh man, I hate those fancy lads!
 

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Scott Adams - Quotes

 Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant. 

Tags: advice   fish   food   humor   wisdom     
Annie Ross - Quotes

 I said:  

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A Bad Day - Quotes

 Tagline: A Fish. A Watch. A Boss. A Life. 

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Jasper Fforde - Quotes

 You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe. 

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Tony Kushner - Quotes

 You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.  

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Thornton Wilder - Quotes

 [Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires. 

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George Eliot - Quotes

 Selfish- a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.  

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George Eliot - Quotes

 I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour--or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing. 

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The Kingdom - Quotes

 Grant Sykes:
This whole trip is gonna be like deep sea fishing in Florida. You pay seven-hundred bucks for a boat, sit on your can out in the ocean. Crew jumps around, screams, points, throws out fish bait, you catch nothing.
 

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - Quotes

 It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive. 

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Ernest Hemingway - Quotes

 He can't have gone, he said  

Tags: fishing   hope     
Charles Simic - Quotes

 A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish. 

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Steven Wright - Quotes

 Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. 

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Samuel Johnson - Quotes

 A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other. 

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