Quotes 241 till 260 of 303.
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The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
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The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
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The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
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The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
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Then leave Complaints: Fools only strive
To make a Great an Honest Hive.
T'enjoy the World's Conveniences,
Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease,
Without great Vices, is a vain
Eutopia seated in the Brain.The Fable of the Bees The Moral, line 1, p. 23 -
There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
Possession (1990) Postscript, Page 50 -
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
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Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.
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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.
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To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.
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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
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To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
Timbuktu (2010) 59 -
To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.Hallowed Ground
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