Quotes with not-too-distant

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  • Ben Carson It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Hader It doesn't occur to me that I don't drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, 'Oh, that's what movie stars are driving. I guess I'm not a movie star.'
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • James Whitcomb Riley It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
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  • Michael Ondaatje It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • C.E.M. Joad It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.
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  • Julie Burchill It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • André Agassi 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.
    André Agassi
    American tennis player (1970 - )
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  • Campbell Brown It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw 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.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Fielding It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Alfred Whitney Griswold It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
    Alfred Whitney Griswold
    American historian and educator (1906 - 1963)
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  • Carson McCullers 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.
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Angela Merkel It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Don Herold It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
    Don Herold
    American humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist (1889 - 1966)
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  • Benjamin Franklin 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.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • William Shakespeare It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Buddha It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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