Quotes with english-only

Quotes 3301 till 3320 of 3972.

  • Boris Pasternak They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
    On Soviet bureaucrats, in LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Lorrie Moore They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Billy Sunday They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a both, but it does you good.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.
    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
    Austrian writer (1830 - 1916)
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  • Voltaire They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Edgar Allen Poe They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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  • Lester Bangs They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.
    Lester Bangs
    American music journalist, critic and author (1948 - 1982)
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  • G. Chapman They're only truly great who are truly good.
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  • Anna Freud Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Alfred de Musset Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
    Alfred de Musset
    French writer (1810 - 1857)
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  • Harold Wallace Ross Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.
    Harold Wallace Ross
    American journalist and founder of The New Yorker (1892 - 1951)
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  • Jane Austen Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Al Capone This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Arthur Golden This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Agnetha Faltskog This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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  • Rita Mae Brown This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.
    Speech at Bali climate change conference (2007)
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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