Quotes with down-on-his-luck

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  • Bruce Nauman And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Barry Humphries And so I set these things down before the onset of the first of a thousand small physical degradations as, in a still-distant suburb, Death strides whistling towards me.
    My Life as Me: A Memoir
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Arthur Bryant And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
    Arthur Bryant
    English historian, columnist for The Illustrated London News and man (1899 - 1985)
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  • Barbara Castle And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ''It's pretty, but is it Art?''
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Bertolt Brecht And the shark he has his teeth and
    There they are for all to see
    And Macheath he has his knife but
    No one knows where it may be.
    The Threepenny Opera The Moritat of Mackie the Knife in Prologue, p. 3
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bruce Catton And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.
    Bruce Cattons America: selections from his greatest works
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Barry McGuire And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Alfred Marshall And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • André Malraux And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Bertolt Brecht And when she was finished they laid her in earth
    Flowers growing, butterflies juggling over her...
    She, so light, barely pressed the earth down
    How much pain it took to make her as light as that!
    Poems, 1913-1956 To my mother [Meiner Mutter] (May 1920), trans. Jo
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Walt Whitman And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Shirley Lord Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to his interest in them, is criminal. But the animals themselves are without protection. The law regards them not substantively. They have no RIGHTS!
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  • Malcolm de Chazal Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
    Malcolm de Chazal
    French writer (1902 - 1981)
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  • Aaron Carter Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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  • Anais Nin Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Rebecca West Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Arleigh Burke Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.
    Arleigh Burke
    American admiral of the US Navy (1901 - 1996)
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