Quotes 501 till 520 of 3763.
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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.
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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
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Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.
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Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.
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Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.
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Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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Black is overrated. You'll never find it in my stores. Of course it's slimming, but it's just used too much, especially for men. One black suit by one designer, another one by another - they all look the same in the end. If I walk into a crowded hotel lobby and I'm wearing a black suit, I just look like everyone else.
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Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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Bofors was a steelmaker that became a forgings company and then went on to build guns. Companies like Krupp and Thyssen were in steel and forgings before entering defence. There are similar examples in the U.K.; it is a natural progression.
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Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows.
The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
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