Quotes 5401 till 5420 of 6249.
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
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What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
Source: The Book of Illusions (2009) 32 -
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, I the soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, I is virtue's prize.
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What one fool can understand, another can.
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What one has to do usually can be done.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
Source: Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men (1903) -
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
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What sort of job can you hold in America in which it is safe to hold the personal conviction that same-sex marriage is wrong? The answer: there is no such job. Except Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. Then you're fine.
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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think ''I can't.''
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What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
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What strikes me, the more I cook, is that the best recipes are ones where the basic anatomy is so sound it will survive multiple adjustments. When a recipe has good bones, you can change the seasoning, double the garlic, swap lime for lemon, and it still turns out delicious.
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What the American people want to see in their president is somebody who not necessarily can win every fight, but they want to see him stand up and fight for what he believes, take his case to the American people.
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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.
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What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
Source: Mother Courage and Her Children The Sergeant, in Scene 1 -
What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.
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What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.
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