Quotes 21 till 40 of 860.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.
Salem's Lot (2008) 315 -
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
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Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
The Gunslinger (1982) 145 -
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy - and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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A commentary on the times is that the word 'honesty' is now preceded by 'old-fashioned.'
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
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A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
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