Quotes 121 till 140 of 3862.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.
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There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
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To be sure he's a ''Man,'' the male must see to it that the female be clearly a ''Woman,'' the opposite of a ''Man,'' that is, the female must act like a faggot.
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To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
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We need to have our conservative version of what health care looks like, and that will include a repeal of Obamacare.
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We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.
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When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.
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When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
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Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
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All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
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