Quotes 161 till 180 of 633.
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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
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I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.
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I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
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I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
Barbara Hepworth: a retrospective -
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.
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I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't.
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I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
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I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.
Angelina Grimké
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
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I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.
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I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...
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I quote others in order to better express myself.
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I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
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