Quotes with in-your-fingers

Quotes 3541 till 3560 of 3592.

  • Derek Jarman All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
    Derek Jarman
    British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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  • Josh Billings Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Davy Crockett Be always sure your are right, then go ahead.
    Davy Crockett
    American folk hero, soldier, and politician (1786 - 1836)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ovid Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Thomas Fuller Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • William Shakespeare But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Fuller Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Alighieri Dante Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Dentist: A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket.
    The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • William Shakespeare Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • James Allen Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
    Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness - by making the ultimate escape from life. - No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • William Ellery Channing Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Raymond Holliwell God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.
    Raymond Holliwell
    American author
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