Quotes with -they

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  • Sir Roger L'Estrange It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
    Source: Æsop's Fables, Reflection
    Sir Roger L'Estrange
    English journalist (1616 - 1702)
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  • Robert Southey It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Raymond Chandler It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Buddha It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • John Galsworthy It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.
    Source: A Bit O' Love (1915)
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Errol Flynn It isn't what they say about you; it's what they whisper.
    Errol Flynn
    Australian-American actor (1909 - 1959)
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  • Bruce Sutter It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott. There's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
    Source: Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bill Forsyth It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.
    Bill Forsyth
    Scottish film director and writer (1946 - )
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  • Abdul Kalam It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Bernard Paine It must recognize and hold up before men the moral character of this corruption of the ballot. Bribery is a sin. It is condemned in the laws of Moses: And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. These words are as true to-day as when they were written.
    Bernard Paine
     
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  • Oscar Wilde It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Paul Auster It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.
    Source: Moon Palace (2010) 87
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Asa Gray It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Sydney Smith It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Eugenie Clark It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
    Eugenie Clark
     
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