Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 10234.
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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
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Among all my patients in the second half of life... every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
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Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
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Among them, but not of them.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage III, 113 -
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
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An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
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An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
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An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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