Quotes 241 till 260 of 921.
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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
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However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.
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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
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I agree that the last years of life are the best, if one is a philosopher.
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I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
― Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852) -
I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.
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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.
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I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
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I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
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I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
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I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
Source: Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 6 -
I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.
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I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.
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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 fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me. It makes me weepy... but I don't think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.
Source: Destinys daughter -
I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs. But for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.
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