Quotes 961 till 980 of 4101.
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Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
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Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
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Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't.
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
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Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
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Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.
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Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
A Distant Mirror -
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.
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