Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 2959.
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Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
Source: Midnight's Children (2010) 596 -
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
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Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
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PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.
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Philippians 4:13 has never rung so true... You were an unparalleled Giant in all sense of the word, Dad. So keep doin' you up there, because no one does it better, and no one ever will.
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Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays -
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
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Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 38 -
Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.
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Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.
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