Quotes 621 till 640 of 683.
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We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
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We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America - as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
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We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.
Lord of the Silver Bow (2005) -
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
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We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
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We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
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We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
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We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.
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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
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We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
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We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!
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We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
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Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?
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What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
An Imaginary Life -
What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
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