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29 "Catching Up" Quotes

"Women have to do all of the catching up. So we are disengaged and overburdened. Sounds like it is time we ditch the complacent fluoride-in-the-tap-water feminism and get reenergized and reinspired."

--- Amy Richards

#Catching #Feminism #Complacent

"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."

--- Anais Nin

#Love #Moments #Always Running

"While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the globe are huge and likely growing."

--- Zygmunt Bauman

#Catching #Poor Countries #Differences

"The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts: when all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free."

--- Barack Obama

#Catching #Fundamentals #Law

"You don't have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information. Maybe, it is as simple as once in a while glancing down at the device that's invaluable to you or many reasons, catching up, or it lets you know when you should know something. But as these things get better and we get more connected in it, it will get more sophisticated."

--- Biz Stone

#Catching #Reason #Get Better

"Hollywood is yesterday, forever catching up tomorrow with what's happening today."

--- Vito Russo

#Catching #Today #Forever

"I'm really big on family. I'll love catching up with my cousins. Everyone's in their twenties, so they're all on their grind at the moment, but when we get the time, I'll fly everybody to Amsterdam or Ibiza, and we can just hang for a week, chill, do nothing."

--- Tinie Tempah

#Catching #Moments #My Cousin

"Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters."

--- Charlie Haas

#Thinking #Catching #I'm Tired

"I'm a really big homebody. If I had my way, a typical Saturday night would be staying home, ordering in, watching a movie or catching up on some shows."

--- Christine Taylor

#Typical #Catching #Homebodies

"There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but it's got a lot of catching up to do. And then there's the clock that's ticking towards a nuclear weaponry."

--- Christopher Hitchens

#Catching #Democracy #Nuclear Weapons

"8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her."

--- Sue Townsend

#Catching #Smoking #Debauchery

"Chase after the truth like all hell."

--- Clarence Darrow

#Truth #Truth Will Set You Free #Honesty

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."

--- Confucius

#Integrity #Demand #Suicidal Thoughts

"So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little."

--- Stephen King

#Catching #Dark Tower #Eye

"I think the problem is these basic sort of human values from our - from the beginning, from birth, are not sort of properly nurtured. So then our mind, our brain, through education and also difference of experiences, that eventually, these basic values or what are called dominant, not have the catching up our intelligence, experience growth, that also should grow. Then our life become more human."

--- Dalai Lama

#Thinking #Catching #Differences

"... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized."

--- Shere Hite

#Catching #Democracy #Father

"We've looked at sleep diaries of patients with insomnia, and they'll say that they don't sleep for one or two days. And the body actually has a natural function, after about the third day to start catching up and you get a little bit more sleep the third night. And that's usually what I tell my patients."

--- Shelby Harris

#Catching #Patient #Sleep

"When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if I don't sleep tonight, I'll likely sleep tomorrow, and if not tomorrow then definitely the third" because our body has a way of naturally catching up."

--- Shelby Harris

#People #Catching #Way

"Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it."

--- Sarah Palin

#Shallow #Catching #Oil

"I am new to superhero comics, though growing up I read Archie comics, religiously. I've been doing a lot of catching up, reading what's out there and it's been wonderful to see what's going on in contemporary comics."

--- Roxane Gay

#Catching #Growing #Wonderful

"Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do."

--- Douglas Adams

#Catching #Impossible #Ecstatic

"Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be. When you're behind, you have to spend your energy catching up."

--- Robert Noyce

#Catching #Behind You #Energy

"Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us. So, just once in a while let us exhault the importance of ideas and information."

--- Edward R. Murrow

#Catching #Goes On #Importance

"Rose!" I looked to my right and saw Adrian cutting across the lawn toward me, oblivious to the slush's effects on his designer shoes. "Did you just call me 'Rose'?" I asked. "And not 'little dhampir'? I don't think that's ever happened." "It happens all the time," he countered, catching up to me."

--- Richelle Mead

#Thinking #Catching #Effects

"My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong."

--- Richard Griffiths

#Catching #Body Language #Posture

"I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life."

--- Rex Smith

#Catching #Contracts #Long

"And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power."

--- Rachel Field

#Catching #Scandal #Way

"My hard work finally catching up with perfect timing"

--- Future

#Catching #Perfect Timing #Timing

"With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up."

--- Gail Sheehy

#People #Thinking #Catching

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