Quotes with courtier-like

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  • Dhammapada Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Samuel Beckett Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Byron Katie Thoughts aren't personal. They just appear, like raindrops. Would you argue with a raindrop?
    Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
    Byron Katie
    American speaker and author (1942 - )
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  • Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
    Polish writer (1909 - 1966)
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  • Barbara Bush Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Blaise Pascal Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Abraham Cowley Through the soft ways of heaven, and air, and sea, Which open all their pores to thee, Like a clear river thou dost glide, And with they living stream through the close channel slide.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • William Wycherley Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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  • Josh Billings Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Louise Erdrich Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Jon Lithgow Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
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  • Bobby Vinton Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Ben Affleck To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Jim Crace To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.
    Jim Crace
    English writer and novelist (1946 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw To be a champion you must live like one.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ernest Renan To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Butch Trucks To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • William Penn To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Bill Hader To be totally honest? I don't know if I'll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had a facility for it, and I was like, 'Okay, I'm the impression guy.' So you imagine the cast at 'SNL' is an A-Team, and you've got the explosives guy, and I'm the impression guy.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Henry Drummond To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
    Henry Drummond
    Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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