Quotes 141 till 160 of 904.
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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
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But here's old Ken - he's been crass, he's been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language - but I don't think actually if you read what he said, although it was extraordinary and rude, I don't think he was actually anti-Semitic.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920) -
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
Pensees (1669) -
Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
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Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
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Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Performed literature: words and music by Bob Dylan -
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'.The Times They Are A-Changin (1964) -
Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.
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