Quotes with old-world

Quotes 2201 till 2220 of 3762.

  • Malcolm Mclaren Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Clive James Stop worrying - nobody gets out of this world alive.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • Philip Roth Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • William Goldman Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired.
    William Goldman
    American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1931 - 2018)
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  • Bono Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Don Marquis Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Arthur Peacocke Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Samuel Johnson Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Zoroaster Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.
    Zoroaster
     
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  • William Shakespeare Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ada Louise Huxtable Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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  • Bernard Lown Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless. Our enthusiasm for the positive spirit in these deliberations must not blind us to the absence of genuine progress toward disarmament. Twenty-four nuclear bombs are being added weekly to world arsenals.
    Source: Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
    Bernard Lown
     
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  • Charles Edward Jerningham Superior knowledge is a mistake; that which rules the world is superior ignorance.
    Source: The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • Samuel Beckett Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Voltaire Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Billy Graham Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Lillian Carter Sure i'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.
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  • Ben Affleck Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bill Skarsgard Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.'
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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