Quotes with and-yes

Quotes 16461 till 16480 of 25201.

  • Samuel Pepys Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • Aldous Huxley Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John Updike That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Alan Parsons That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • William Wordsworth That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • William Wordsworth That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Arne Jacobsen That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Alexander Pope That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable, is made up of civility and falsehood.
    Source: Thoughts (1754)
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
    Source: A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bryan Robson That didn't happen. Still, I had six pretty good years and one where I didn't reach what I wanted for myself or the club. I don't accept that makes you a bad manager or a poor coach. If that is the view I strongly disagree with it.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Bainbridge Colby That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Britney Spears That driving incident, I did it with my dad. I'd sit on his lap and I drive. We're country.
    Source: MSNBC interview (2006)
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bret Harte That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinese is peculiar.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Euripides That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Ben Harper That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • J. Sparrow That indefatigable and unsavoury engine of pollution, the dog.
    J. Sparrow
     
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Willa Cather That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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