Quotes 2161 till 2180 of 4584.
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Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
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Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
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Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Vivian Grey (1826) VIII, ch. 4 -
Like all other zealous reformers we do what we do because we like doing it better than anything else.
The almost perfect state -
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996) 248 -
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
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Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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Literature, as a field of glory, is an arena where a tomb may be more easily found than laurels; and as a means of support, it is the chance of chances.
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Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
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Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
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Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
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Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
Long term, I have a lot of confidence in the United States. We have an excellent record in terms of innovation. We have great universities that are involved in technological change and progress. We have an entrepreneurial culture, much more than almost any other country.
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Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.
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