Quotes 81 till 100 of 140.
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Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.
Source: Liefdesmedicijn (2010) -
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
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Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
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Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
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Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
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She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
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Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
Source: On the influence of Jack Kerouac, as quoted in Jack Kerouac (2007) -
Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.
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The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
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The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
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The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
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The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
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The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
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The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
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The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.
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