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Quotes 1221 till 1240 of 1443.

  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bill Rodgers To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.
    Bill Rodgers
    American marathon athlete (1947 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracián To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Bono To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Blair Underwood To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Robert Orben To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
    Robert Orben
    American editor, writer, humorist (1927 - 2023)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Anna Louise Strong To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Barbara Walters To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Robert A. Heinlein To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Carl Honore To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Alfred Jarry To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a ''mummified'' form.
    Alfred Jarry
    French playwright, author (1873 - 1907)
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  • Mary Webb To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi
    Mary Webb
    English novelist and poet
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  • Victor Hugo To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost - that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization - is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Mikhail Bakunin To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Jean Anouilh To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Alexander Chase To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • George Orwell To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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