Quotes 4221 till 4240 of 10439.
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It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
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It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
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It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
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It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
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It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.
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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us.
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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
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It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
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It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
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It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
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