Quotes 2161 till 2180 of 2994.
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The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called good fighting generals of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life. There were of course exceptions and I suppose one was Plumer; I had only once seen him and I had never spoken to him.
Regarding the generals of the First World War. 1 -
The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'
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The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.
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The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
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The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it.
Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 119 -
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.
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The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
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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.
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The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
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The hardest and best borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record and are suffered every day.
Old Curiosity Shop -
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
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The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
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