Quotes 861 till 880 of 1106.
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There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
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There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
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There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
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There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.
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There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done."
Source: The Great Divorce (1944) -
There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with a tiptoeing quality or an all-out cliche.
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There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty.
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There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.
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There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.
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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
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There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
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There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.
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There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end.
Source: Leviathan ch. 31 -
There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
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There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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