Quotes with old-world

Quotes 3621 till 3640 of 3762.

  • Jane Austen You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Thomas Traherne You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Cassandra Clare You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of them, and they have their feelings about them.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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  • Clare Boothe Luce You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Bono You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • James Baldwin You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
    Doom and glory of knowing who you are (1963)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Hermann Hesse You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Buddy Hackett You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Henry Ford You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • James Allen You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • George Bernard Shaw You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
    O'Flaherty V.C. (1919)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mae West You're never too old to become younger.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Groucho Marx You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Percy Ross You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
    Percy Ross
    American businessman (1916 - 2001)
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  • Bill Gates You've got to be willing to read other people's code, and then write your own, then have other people review your code. You've got to want to be in this incredible feedback loop where you get the world-class people to tell you what you're doing wrong...
    Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Carole King You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face
    And show the world all the love in your heart
    The people gonna treat you better,
    You're gonna find, yes you will,
    That you're beautiful as you feel.
    Tapestry (1971)
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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