Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 6069.
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
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For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
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For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.
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For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
De Consolatione Philosophia Book 2, prose 4 -
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
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For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together
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For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
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For me, a hearty 'belly laugh' is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
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For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
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For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can create wonderful depth and meaning and communication without using words. I started out as an illustrator and a cartoonist and caricature artist, so for me the visual is primary.
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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
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For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.
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For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
Lecture at the University of Maryland (March 2005) -
For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
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