Quotes 4541 till 4560 of 5709.
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There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
Ever the Winds of Chance (1983) -
There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.
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There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.
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There was commotion in Roaring Camp. It could not have been a fight, for in 1850 that was not novel enough to have called together the entire settlement.
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There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.
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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
St. Francis de Sales
Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622) -
There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.
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There was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625) -
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
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There was no corn - in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales - and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
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There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.
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