Quotes with old-time

Quotes 3481 till 3500 of 3518.

  • William S. Burroughs Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Walter Benjamin All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Rupert Brooke But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Dawn: The time when men of reason go to bed.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • William Shakespeare Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Aga Khan III Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
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  • Ambrose Bierce Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Salvatore Satta His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.
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  • Bryce Harper I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. 'Overrated.' 'You suck.' I'll just do something to shut them up, like, 'I'll show you.'
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • B. W. Powe If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
    Towards A Canada of Light Third Meditation, p. 161
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Adele In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Aristotle In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Blair Underwood In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Pablo Picasso It takes a long time to become young.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Simone Weil It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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