Quotes with courtier-like

Quotes 961 till 980 of 3710.

  • Jonathan Swift Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Amelia E. Barr Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Margaret Halsey Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Henry David Thoreau Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • James Thurber Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Zsa Zsa Gabor Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.
    Zsa Zsa Gabor
    American actrice (1917 - 2016)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bryan Greenberg I actually feel like I have developed friendships through Twitter, people that I've worked with I can kind of keep up with them. I've totally turned a corner. I get it. And Instagram.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Mohsin Hamid I actually feel that personal matters, like religion and spirituality, are things that I really discuss only with intimates. I think it's, in a way, like sexuality, something where it touches upon something very private.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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  • Brooke Shields I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Walt Disney I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Bill Murray I always like to say to people who want to be rich and famous, try being rich first. See if that doesn't cover most of it.
    I know how to be sour, The Guardian, December 2003
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Burn Gorman I always look up to people like Michael Gambon and Tommy Lee Jones, and I hope that as I mature I will become as craggy as them.
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • Jesse Owens I always loved running - it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
    Jesse Owens
    American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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  • Andy Warhol I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I am all about caring. I have always been like that.
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  • Winston Churchill I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Javier Perez de Cuellar I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.
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