Quotes 81 till 100 of 560.
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
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But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been.
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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.
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But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.
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But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.
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Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
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By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex!
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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
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