Quotes 521 till 540 of 1583.
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
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I suppose that's one of the ironies of life, doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
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I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
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I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.
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I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.
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I think they do have to get it right in Sierra Leone. There has to be something in there now to establish confidence, to stabilize the situation, and then to move to some sort of political negotiations.
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I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.
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I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.
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I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out.
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I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
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I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847) Ch. XII) -
I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
Source: Letter to John Adams (24 September 1774) -
I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
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I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
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