Quotes 41 till 60 of 140.
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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
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I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
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I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Passell - The Best (1974) -
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
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I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.
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I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
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I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to.
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I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of fiends, and empty purse.
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I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
Interview with Claudia Dreifus in September and October 1995, published in Times Magazine (4 February 1996) -
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.
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Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.
De grap (1967) -
In 1922, I got a small stipend from the Swedish-American Foundation and went to Cambridge, England, for a few months and thereafter to Harvard University. In the summer, Cambridge was rather empty, but I am grateful for many pleasant talks about economics with Austin Robinson who, in the summer of 1922, seemed to be about as lonely as I was.
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In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
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In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.
De Engelse patient (2011) 67
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