Quotes with courtier-like

Quotes 3121 till 3140 of 3710.

  • Carmine Coppola To me, there is nothing like the excitement and unique experience of a live orchestra playing.
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  • Buzz Osborne To me, traveling by bus is like climbing into a closet and watching 'Das Boot.'
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Bootsy Collins To me, you go through things like that and you learn from it. You add it on to your life, to try to make your life better. Instead of dogging people, learn something from it. And keep stepping.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Agnes Martin To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Anna Lindh To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Edmund Burke To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Demosthenes To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • John Updike To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Alexander Smith To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Aaron Copland To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Bow Wow To the world, I'm Bow Wow. When I leave here and I go to L.A., and I go to my daughter's house and I sit with her, I feel like Shad. I'm not Bow; I'm 'Daddy.' It's, like, the illest feeling in the world. I feel like I'm away from everything.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Alvin Toffler To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Benny Goodman To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • H. L. Wayland To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetous
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  • Aristotle To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Takijiro Ohnishi Today in bloom, tomorrow as afallen petals, like a delicate flower, life is.
    Takijiro Ohnishi
    Japanese admiral (1891 - 1945)
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  • Lin Yü-tang Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
    Lin Yü-tang
    Chinese writer (1895 - 1976)
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