Quotes 721 till 740 of 2159.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.
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I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
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I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
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I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.
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I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.
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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
Up From Slavery (1901) -
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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I love opposition that has convictions.
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I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
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I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
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I never was on the dull, tame shore,
But I loved the great sea more and more.The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. -
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
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I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
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I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
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I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
PC Magazine, 23 June 2008
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