Quotes 141 till 160 of 295.
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
The Problem of Pain (1940) -
M so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
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Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative and it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we're to continue to grow.
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Many things - such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
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Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
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Men were only made into ''men'' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ''a man'' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
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Michael Lewis, author of 'Moneyball,' got special access for a profile of Obama for 'Vanity Fair' - but Obama insisted on redlining his quotes.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
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More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.
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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
The Pilgrims Regress -
Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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Mr. Sensible learned only catchwords from them. He could talk like Epicurus of spare diet, but he was a glutton. He had from Montaigne the language of friendship, but no friend.
The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 176 -
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!
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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
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No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
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No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.
The Weight of Glory -
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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