Quotes 461 till 480 of 1369.
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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ''Ode on a Grecian Urn'' is worth any number of old ladies.
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If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
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If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
Source: As Calveros Partner in Limelight (1952) -
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
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If the memory is more flexible in childhood, it is more tenacious in mature age; if childhood has sometimes the memory of words, old age has that of things, which impress themselves according to the clearness of the 'conception of the thought which we wish to retain.
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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
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If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
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If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.
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If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.
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If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
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