Quotes 221 till 240 of 392.
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Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
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Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
Source: The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
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No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.
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No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
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No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.
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Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words.
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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
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Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
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Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.
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Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching.
Source: Chris Chase, A Talk With the Unsinkable Barbara Walters, New York Magazine (March 25, 1974) -
O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
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O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.
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Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.
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