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Quotes 161 till 180 of 560.

  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • John Burroughs How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Woody Allen How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Kofi Annan However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Oscar Wilde I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Santayana I agree that the last years of life are the best, if one is a philosopher.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Thomas Hobbes I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Mikhail Baryshnikov I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
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  • Alfred Hitchcock I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Charlotte Brontë I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
    Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 6
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bruce Oldfield I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • Benazir Bhutto I don't fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me. It makes me weepy... but I don't think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.
    Destinys daughter
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Loretta Lynn I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs. But for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.
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  • Arthur Hertzberg I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bryce Harper I don't wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it's my last day ever playing it. I do like football, but you've got to respect that it's not like baseball.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Margaret Halsey I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Abraham Lincoln I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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