Quotes 3161 till 3180 of 10234.
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
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I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
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I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is.
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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
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I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.
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I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
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I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
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I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.
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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.
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I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
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I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
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I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.
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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
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I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
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