Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 3899.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margret Mead: Some personal views (1979) p. 249 -
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
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I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
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I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
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I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
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I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
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I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.
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I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
Quoted in The New Inquistions by Arthur Versluis -
I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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I pay very little regard to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
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I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
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I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
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I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
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I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
The Guardian (15 May 2011)
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