Quotes with english-only

Quotes 1461 till 1480 of 3972.

  • Cesare Pavese It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Henry Ford It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Bill Bryson It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect. I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game.
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • S. I. Hayakawa It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
    S. I. Hayakawa
    Canada-American Senator (1902 - 1992)
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  • Carl Sagan It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Grenville Kleiser It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
    Grenville Kleiser
    Canadian-American author (1868 - 1935)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Madame Guizot It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
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  • Henry S. Haskins It is only an uncivilized world that would worship civilization.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 22
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Harvey S. Firestone It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
    Harvey S. Firestone
    American businessman
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • James Baldwin It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Camille Pissarro It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Brenda Ueland It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • George Macdonald It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William James It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • C. P. Snow It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.
    Public Affairs (1971)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Assata Shakur It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • André Gide It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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