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Quotes 3081 till 3100 of 10234.

  • Moliere I live on good soup, not on fine words.
    Moliere
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Martin Luther King I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Samuel Johnson I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Guillaume Apollinaire I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Italian-born French poet, critic (1880 - 1918)
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  • John Updike I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Lorrie Moore I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I love those who do not know how to live for today.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Charles Lamb I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Seth Godin I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
    Seth Godin
    American author and business executive (1960 - )
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  • Stokely Carmichael I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Blaise Pascal I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Salman Rushdie I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Jane Austen I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Oscar Wilde I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Douglas Adams I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Robert Burton I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Anthony Hope I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.
    Anthony Hope
    English writer (1863 - 1933)
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