Quotes 5181 till 5200 of 15856.
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
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I sometimes think we all die at twenty-five and after that are nothing but walking corpses, with gramophones inside.
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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
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I sometimes wonder if my requests are legitimate. So I'm honest with God. I say, Lord, I don't know if I have the right to ask for this. I don't know how I should pray about it. But I hand it over to your now, and if you'll tell me how to pray, I'll pray your way.
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I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals…
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I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
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I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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I suppose I had these concerns but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated.
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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
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I suppose that every parent loves his child; but I know without any supposing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares.
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I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.
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I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
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I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
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