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Lessons Quotes - Page 17

Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons

Joseph Boyden (2014). “The Orenda: A novel”, p.64, Vintage

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

John Edgar Wideman, Bonnie TuSmith (1998). “Conversations with John Edgar Wideman”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I think the lesson's learned are that we have to have to have a strategy to get and a strategy to get out. Which means, that you create a stable situation.

"5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

There's a lesson in every temptation.

Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.363, Penguin

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

"“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 31, 1920.

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1902). “Poems”