Quotes 301 till 320 of 942.
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
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However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama .
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Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.
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I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
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I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
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I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.
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I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
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I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
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I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
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I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Source: Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations and Characters, of Books and Men (1820) -
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.
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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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