Quotes 121 till 140 of 492.
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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
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I do believe that organizations can certainly improve lives by specifying better fonts, which of course has an effect on how you read your e-mail.
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I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.
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I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
Source: Barbara Hepworth: a retrospective -
I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.
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I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
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I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.
― Angelina Grimké
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.
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I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.
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I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...
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I quote others in order to better express myself.
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
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I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
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I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
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