Quotes 441 till 460 of 837.
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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
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My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
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Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's ''yes,'' all's well. That is enough.
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Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
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Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.
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Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
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News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
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No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
Van Paassen interview (1936) -
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
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No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you don't want to be told that you only got whatever because of the way you look. It takes the heart out of you.
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No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.
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No one should form an acquaintance with one who has an evil character. A piece of coal, if it is hot burns, and if it's cold, blackens the hands.
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No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
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Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
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Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being.
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Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.
Aint It Cool News interview -
Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
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