Quotes 321 till 340 of 441.
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The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
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Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
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There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
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There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.
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There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.
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There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.
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These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
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They were left in the lurch For want of more wadding — He ran to the church — ... With his arms full of hymnbooks... Rang his voice, Put Watts into 'em — Boys, give 'em Watts.
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