Quotes 221 till 240 of 1106.
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Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?
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Every choice you make has an end result.
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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
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Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.
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Every single moment of your life you must choose from a number of alternatives. What you choose determines where you will end up.
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Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
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Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
Source: Peter Pan (1904) -
Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is explore. I want to see what people would do. I say, 'What would this person do in this situation?' and I write it down. I'm not writing manifestos of my political views.
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Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.
Source: Middlesex (2003) 524 -
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
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Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
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Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace.
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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
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First, then, a woman will or won't, depend on 't;
If she will do 't, she will; and there 's an end on 't.
But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is,
Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice.Source: Zara (1735) -
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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