Quotes 6581 till 6600 of 15856.
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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
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It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
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It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
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It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a ''grand peut-''tre'' - but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.
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It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
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It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
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It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
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It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
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It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.
Pensees (1669) -
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
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It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
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It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.
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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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