Quotes 301 till 320 of 490.
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Poets are born, not paid.
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Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
That he not busy being born is busy dying.Bringing It All Back Home (1965) -
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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Seems sick an' it's hungry, it's tired an' it's torn, it looks like it's a-dyin' an' it's hardly been born.
Bob Dylan (1962) -
Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter
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Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
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So they put a rifle in my hand Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A. (1984) -
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
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Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
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Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
Love at Second Sight (1916) Ch. xviii -
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
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Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
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Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.
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