Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 2595.
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Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories (2016) 206 -
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
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Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
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Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.
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Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.
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Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.
To which Costello replies "Thats what I want to find out." From: Naughty Nineties (1945) -
Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
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Nowadays, I could not care less about making other people like me. I'm a good person, I don't need to do that anymore.
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Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.
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O what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive.
Marmion -
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
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