Quotes 141 till 160 of 539.
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I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
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I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Gaskell - The life of Charlotte Brontë (1870) p.285 -
I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
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I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.
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I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
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I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.
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I guess I am attracted to older women. I'm looking for a 40-something who has had her heart broken two or three hundred times. She's going to be fun!
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I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.
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I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.
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I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America -
I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
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I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
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I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.
A prayer for Owen Meany (1989) -
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
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I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
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