Quotes 1121 till 1140 of 4355.
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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 129 -
Have you ever played a video game that didn't have escalating levels of difficulty? Well, life can feel like play, too, when we purposefully engage in activities that demand we test and develop our skills.
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Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
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Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
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He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.
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He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets, which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short.
Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden -
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
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He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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He is like a cat. And all cats are thieves.
Murder for Christmas (1939) -
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
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He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.
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He receives comfort like cold porridge.
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