Quotes 221 till 240 of 303.
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That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.
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That's the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin. Once you're there, the only thing you can really do is leave again
Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006) Kelsier, Ch. 13 -
That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
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The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.
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The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.
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The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
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The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
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The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing, when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
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