Quotes 341 till 360 of 1272.
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How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.
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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
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However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.
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I am an old man and have known a great many sorrows, but most of them never happened.
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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
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I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Source: As quoted in "Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise", Tavis Smiley, Simon and Schuster, 2009, p. 198 -
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.
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I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
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I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.
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