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But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!

But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.

By accepting our aging and letting its lessons broaden us internally, we become calmer in the face of the body's inevitable deterioration. Becoming less attached to our outer appearance is so liberating.

Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?” “I was imagining it was Evor.” “Strange, they do not greatly resemble each other.” “I have a good imagination.” “In that case, I do not suppose you are imagining I'm Brad Pitt?

Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same.

Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday.

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.

Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is.

CONVICTIONS are lessons learned from experiences we’d never want to go through again, but wouldn’t trade for anything in the world.

Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

Do not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible, study the Bible. The Bible is the Word of God, and only the Bible is the Word of God.

Didn't we learn our lesson from Planet of the Apes?

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

Don't be afraid of failure. Never fear it because there's always a lesson if you're open to it. There's always a lesson at the end of it. Always.

Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.

Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.

Don't think this has taught me a lesson !

Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.

Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverence and survival and a lesson for us all.

Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.

Each soul, each person, has to find their own way - learn their own lessons ... It's all those rough bits that make us stronger.

Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned.

Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.

Etienne gave me lessons. Three of them. Then he said I was a menace and refused to teach me anything more for fear that I’d slice his head off.

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.

Even bad decisions usually result in good lessons learned.

Even bad results teach you something, and you can learn your lessons and get better.

Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.

Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said. Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y.

Every experience, waking or dream, has a lesson or message to impart to us.

Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.

Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.

... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

Every happening is a lesson, a message.