Quotes 1001 till 1020 of 1186.
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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.
Source: Remark to Galeazzo Ciano (19 December 1937) quoted in The Book of Italian Wisdom (2003) by Antonio Santi, p. 50 -
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
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This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.
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This sea will never die, neither will it ever grow old, nor cease to be blue, nor in the dawn cease to lift up its hills and let the slim black ship of Dionysos come sailing in with grapevines up the mast.
Source: Middle of the World (1929) -
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
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Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.
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Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
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To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
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To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.
Source: The Man Nobody Knows (1924) On Jesus, in Ch. 1 : The Executive -
To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
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To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
Source: Timbuktu (2010) 59 -
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
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To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fair judgement is just wrong. It's just not how the judicial system works in our country and not how it ever can work.
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To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.
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