Quotes with after-dinner

Quotes 721 till 740 of 921.

  • Jules Renard The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Ben Carson The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bee Wilson The saddest utensil I've come across is an 'anti-loneliness ramen bowl,' which holds your iPhone to keep you company as you slurp your solitary bowl of noodles. But the iPhone cannot return your gaze or reassure you that you didn't squeeze too much lime into the soup, though maybe a dinner-conversation app is only a matter of time.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Herbert Hoover The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Barbara Bush The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • William Shakespeare The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Adam Smith The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Carey Mulligan The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Benjamin Booker The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • George Ade The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • Jean Paul The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Billy Tauzin The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Anthony Burgess The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Agatha Christie The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Betty Williams The voice of women, the voice of those most closely involved in bringing forth new life, has not always been listened to when it pleaded and implored against the waste of life in war after war.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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