Quotes with common-place

Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 1131.

  • A. Waugh You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.
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  • Lorrie Moore You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Bob Shacochis You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the context that you place them in - the crises in which you've placed them.
    Bob Shacochis
    American writer (1951 - )
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  • Andrew Taylor Still You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.
    Andrew Taylor Still
    American physician and surgeon (1828 - 1917)
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  • John D. Mcdonald You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? - By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...
    John D. Mcdonald
    American writer of novels and short stories (1916 - 1986)
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  • H. Stanley Judd You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.
    H. Stanley Judd
    American author
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  • Arthur Pine Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.
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  • Betsy Beers Your structure and format may not be perfect, and you may not have picked the perfect franchise, but if I pick up a script, and the characters are real, whole, complicated and come from a place of somebody who really is feeling it, that's what people remember.
    Betsy Beers
    American television and film producer (1957 - )
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  • Francis Picabia Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Sir Richard Steele Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley ''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Anne Northup A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.
    Anne Northup
    American politician and educator (1948 - )
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  • Carl Andre A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
    Carl Andre
    American minimalist artist (1935 - )
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  • Albert Camus A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • William Allen White Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.
    William Allen White
    American editor, writer (1868 - 1944)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Shakespeare But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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