Quotes 421 till 440 of 1663.
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I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
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I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
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I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable - any real insight or broad human sentiment.
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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
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I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.
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I don't know how many roles I can ask my dad to play in my life, but so far, father, best friend, role model, mentor and grandfather to my children are working out quite well.
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I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.
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I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.
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I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
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I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.
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I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.
The Sunset Limited (2011) 46 -
I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say no, never stop trying, and to always believe that you can do better than the next fellow. I tried to follow this throughout my life, but I always tried to be respectful about it.
As quoted in an interview with Marc Blau (2004) -
I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.
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I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
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