Quotes with modern-day

Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 1282.

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W. Bruce Cameron When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Henry Fielding When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is a new guest. Soon this watchfulness will become the host. The day the watchfulness becomes the host, it remains twenty-four hours with you. And out of this watchfulness, whatever you do has a wisdom in it. Whatever you do shows a clarity, a purity, a spontaneity, a grace.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Carlo Ratti When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Campbell Brown When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Sidney Madwed When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • Alan Cohen When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Frank Tyger When you like your work every day is a holiday.
    Frank Tyger
    American aphorist (1929 - 2011)
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  • Bruce Forsyth When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Bob Taft Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • Arthur Keith Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Campbell Brown While the protection of speech is at the bedrock of our democracy, it's critical as a nation that we exercise our right every day - and that includes embracing and engaging with those we may not agree with.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bill Engvall Who applies for that job? Who says I want to work in lost luggage? You don't have a good day. That's like having a job emptying port-a-potties. You're just going to catch crap all day long.
    Blue Collar Comedy Tour
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Bill Simmons Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Edward Parsons Day Wine makes a poor man rich in imagination, a rich man poor in reality.
    Edward Parsons Day
    English editor (1822 - 1906)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Augusten Burroughs With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Bria Skonberg With my trumpet voice, I love gritty, plunger, growly sounds. But vocally, I love Anita O'Day - a raspier but definitely softer sound. Part of the fun has been finding vehicles or writing for both of those sounds.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Ezra Pound With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Abraham Lincoln With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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