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• Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

  Albert Ellis

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Rational, World, Getting, Good, Bring

• The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.

  Joan Collins

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Poorer, Getting, Rich, Problem, Being, Born

• President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

  Ralph Nader

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Getting, People, Promise, Around

• There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author’s permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

  Robert Benchley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Getting, Public, Reading, Permission
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  I’m scared of getting too close to anyone, because those who said that they’ll always be there for me, left.

  Unknown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Getting, Always, Scared

• The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

  Tony Snow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Getting, Sick
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  My new years resolution is to get skinny, pretty and healthy while still detroying myself with drugs and alcohol.

  Unknown

  Topics in Health

  Tags in With, Getting, Healthy, Myself, Still

• When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fully, Decided, Trial, Getting, Until

• ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they’re getting the business.

  Robert Sternberg

  Topics in Business, Country

  Tags in Getting, Each, Really

• Picasso’s always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Always, Picasso, Getting, Myself

• My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

  T. S. Eliot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Getting, Greatest, Trouble

• In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Getting, Anxiety, Attention

• Since I travel so much, it’s always great to be home. There’s nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.

  Amy Grant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Getting, Home, Travel

• A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

  Russell Baker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Getting, Like

• Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Question, Charm, Getting, Another, Answer

• Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Getting, Thankful

• I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially

  Denzel Washington

  Topics in Commitment, Health

  Tags in Getting, Drinking

• I’d get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.

  Theodore H. White

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Getting, Disappear, Room

• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Getting, Happiest

• You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving – and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it – and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

  Robert Collier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Riches, Getting, Good