Quotes 401 till 420 of 441.
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What is uttered is finished and done with.
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.
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When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job.
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When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
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When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
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When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
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When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.
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When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!
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When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
Source: Festus (1813) A Country Town -
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.
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