Quotes 621 till 640 of 8505.
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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
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A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
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A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
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A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.'
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A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
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A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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A woman's faults, be they never so small, cast a shadow which all her virtues cannot dispel.
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A word carries far - very far - deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
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A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.
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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
― St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591) -
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
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About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.
Source: Out on a Limb. Details Magazine. October 1996
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