Quotes with english-only

Quotes 3721 till 3740 of 3972.

  • Willie Shoemaker When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.
    Willie Shoemaker
    American jockey (1931 - 2003)
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  • Anton Chekhov When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Cameron Sinclair When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Henry Miller Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • W. M. Thackeray Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Epictetus Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Samuel Johnson Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Louis Pasteur Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.
    Louis Pasteur
    French scientist (1822 - 1895)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Art Buchwald Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Arthur Laffer Which would you rather have, capital lined up on your borders, trying to get into your country or trying to get out of your country? We are the capital magnet of this planet and we are the savior for not only people, for not only freedom, but also for capital.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Arthur Rock Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Samuel Johnson While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • James Tyler Kent While Homeopathy itself is a perfect science, its truth is only partially known. The truth itself relates to the Divine, the knowledge relates to man.
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  • Buddha Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Anna Freud Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Matthew Prior Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Bruno Maag Why do only the Latin script when Nokia has a billion consumers? Typography is the bedrock of communication; it can really connect people.
    Bruno Maag
    Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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