Quotes with ago-they

Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 5767.

  • Italo Calvino I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • A. N. Wilson I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Anita Roddick I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Graham Swift I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.
    Graham Swift
    English writer (1949 - )
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
    Source: The Temple of Death
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Ace Frehley I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • George Eliot I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Abbie Hoffman I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Aleksandar Hemon I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle.
    Source:  (2013)
    Aleksandar Hemon
    Short story writer, novelist, columnist (1964 - )
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  • Aleksandar Hemon I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle.
    Source:  (2013)
    Aleksandar Hemon
    Bosnian-American author, critic and screenwriter (1964 - )
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  • Bill Hicks I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. And I say no, it's not, Dad. Well, I believe that it is. Well, you know, some people believe they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth.
    Source: Filling Up the Hump
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Peter Ackroyd I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.
    Source: The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • George Farquehar I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
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  • Dick Martin I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
    Dick Martin
     
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  • Mickey Rooney I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.
    Mickey Rooney
    American actor, vaudevillian, comedian and producer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Mark Twain I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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