Quotes with after-dinner

Quotes 261 till 280 of 921.

  • George Orwell Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Tim O'Brien Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.
    Tomcat in Love (2011) 319
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Ovid Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Bobby Doerr Even after I played ten years of ball, I still felt like I had to play well or somebody might take my place. They had plenty of players in the minor leagues who were good enough to come up and take your job, and I think that kept us going all of the time. I hustled and put that extra effort in all of the time.
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  • Truman Capote Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Arthur Bryant Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.
    Arthur Bryant
    English historian, columnist for The Illustrated London News and man (1899 - 1985)
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  • Bob Harper Even though you really don't feel like you're motivated to go to the gym, remember how good you felt after the last time you went. Keep that in the forefront of your brain.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Barry Malzberg Events, I say to the Captain, events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.
    Beyond Apollo Ch. 60
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  • Henry David Thoreau Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bill Ayers Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Georges Clemenceau Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Marquis de Sade Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Rex Harrison Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
    Rex Harrison
    English actor (1908 - 1990)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Jim Morrison Expose yourself to your deepest fear: after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
    Jim Morrison
    American singer, poet and songwriter (1943 - 1971)
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  • George Eliot Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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