Quotes 581 till 600 of 717.
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There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.
Source: Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra -
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
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There's a song called 'My Faith' that's kind of my spiritual song on my record. It's a little bit of my softer side of me, comin' out of left field a little bit.
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There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.
Source: Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (13 December 1963) -
There's so much left to achieve, there's so much more to do, there's so much that has not been done.
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These are days when no one should rely unduly on his ''competence.'' Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
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They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part IV (1759) -
They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
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They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
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They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
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They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.
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They were left in the lurch For want of more wadding — He ran to the church — ... With his arms full of hymnbooks... Rang his voice, Put Watts into 'em — Boys, give 'em Watts.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
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This is the essence of the problem. To Dan Rather and to a lot of other powerful members of the chattering class, that which is right of center is conservative. That which is left of center is middle of the road. No wonder they can't recognize their own bias.
Source: Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News -
This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought
Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land
Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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