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Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 1696.

  • Ezra Pound The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • William Cowper The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Peter de Vries The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • John Ruskin The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Johnson The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anais Nin The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Barry Commoner The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Ronald Laing The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • John Jay Chapman The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • E. M. Cioran The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Don Delillo The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Brendan Myers The gods, if they exist, are just the people who happen to live on the other side.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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