Quotes 3501 till 3520 of 4584.
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The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
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The thing with drama is you're allowed to invent people who are maybe slightly better than real people.
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The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
Cosmos (1980) 221 -
The trading characteristics of a security become more important than its underlying economics. The virtual economics began to drive the physical economy rather than the other way around.
The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 3 -
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
Towards A Canada of Light Interlude, p. 113 -
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Magicians Nephew (1955), Ch. 10 : The First Jo -
The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
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The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.
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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
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The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.
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