Quotes 281 till 300 of 1140.
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
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France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.
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Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
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Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
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Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.
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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.
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God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own, and sometimes you can pull off some stuff, but in the long run, it's much easier with Him by our side.
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Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.
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Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
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Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.
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Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
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Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.
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He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets, which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short.
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