Quotes 1161 till 1180 of 1186.
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
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A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
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Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
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Down went the owners - greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.
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Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
The Devil's Dictionary -
I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.
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I supported John McCain for president. I raised a million dollars for him. Still a lot of money. I supported him. He lost. He let us down. So I never liked him as much after that because I don`t like losers.
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I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
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If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
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In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
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It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
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Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
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The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.
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The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it.
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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
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The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.
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