Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1344.
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The wonder we often express at our neighbours keeping dull company, would lessen if we reflected that most people seek companions less to be talked to, than to talk.
Thoughts (1754) -
The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
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The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
The vocation to marriage: eighteen discourses -
The worst men often give the best advice.
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The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
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There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?
Bobby Darin
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973) -
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
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There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
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There are still times when I am walking up, and I look at the Capitol, and I think, 'Oh my goodness.' Right now, I am kind of scared to go onto the floor and speak. Once I get used to it, though, they probably won't be able to keep me off there.
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
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There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
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There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.
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