Quotes 101 till 120 of 136.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.
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The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.
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The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
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They say my verse is sad: no wonder.
Its narrow measure spans
Rue for eternity, and sorrow
Not mine, but man's.
This is for all ill-treated fellows
Unborn and unbegot,
For them to read when they're in trouble
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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