Quotes 1221 till 1240 of 1342.
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What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
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What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.
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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
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What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed and not for pay? Absurd or insincere?
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What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
Source: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1963) -
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.
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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
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What's great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they're so fast, they grow overnight.
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What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.
Source: At the United Nations 60th summit, 2005-09-16 -
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
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When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
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When I drove up on the set one day, and they'd put up a sign that says 'The Bill Engvall Show,' I stood there for 20 minutes just staring at it. The director, James Widdoes, came up and said, 'What are you doing?' And I said, 'Look at this! There's my name on a stage door in Hollywood!'
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When I first moved to Los Angeles, I had a really bad run. I would sleep in my car during the day outside the Disney building in Burbank, and that's where I got my first job, which is really weird. I liked to stay around the studios and kind of get the good vibes going.
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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.
Source: A Grief Observed (1961)
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