Quotes 3201 till 3220 of 3862.
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Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
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Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.
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Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
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Thoughts aren't personal. They just appear, like raindrops. Would you argue with a raindrop?
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002) -
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
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Through the soft ways of heaven, and air, and sea, Which open all their pores to thee, Like a clear river thou dost glide, And with they living stream through the close channel slide.
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
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Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
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Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.
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Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
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To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.
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To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.
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To be a champion you must live like one.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
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