Quotes 1081 till 1100 of 1877.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
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Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful - just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.
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Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.
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Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
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Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
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Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
Source: Memoirs (1991) -
Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
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Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
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Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance (1983) -
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
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On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.
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On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.
Source: A Distant Mirror -
On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'
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