Quotes 2061 till 2080 of 2478.
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We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our stature's touch the skies.
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We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
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We never know the true value of friends. While they live, we are too sensitive of their faults; when we have lost them, we only see their virtues.
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We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
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We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.
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We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
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We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
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We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.
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We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
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We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past actions are already in the pipeline. Global temperatures are rising. Glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are multiplying.
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We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where it's taking us or what it means, but I know we do it. I have seen a lot of it myself.
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We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and.".
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We owe most of what we know to about one hundred men. We owe most of what we have suffered to another hundred or so.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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We put a monkey up in space / and I know exactly how he felt / looking at a lattice work of stars / missing his brothers back home too much for a postcard
Perfecting Loneliness (2002) Disgrace -
We read to know that we are not alone.
Shadowlands (1993) -
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
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We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
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