Quotes 561 till 580 of 1038.
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My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
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My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
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Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
― Robert H. Schuller
American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015) -
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
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Never permit failure to become a habit.
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Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
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No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
Source: Arctic Dreams -
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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