Quotes 18341 till 18360 of 25152.
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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
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The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
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The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.
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The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.
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The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.
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The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
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The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.
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The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
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The pathway to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on yours, and that you may never experience the humiliation that the power of the American government has reduced me to, is the wish of him who, in his native forests, was once as proud as you.
Source: The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833) -
The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?
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The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Source: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963) -
The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
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The people around us are at the top of their craft, and we benefit from that.
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The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
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The people follow what the media say. So if you said that Bruno Dumont is fantastic, it follows that more people would go to see my films. I have no wish to remain on the sidelines. I have no wish to make films that are only seen by bohemians in London and Paris.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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