Quotes 881 till 900 of 6293.
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Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.
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Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
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Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
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Black is overrated. You'll never find it in my stores. Of course it's slimming, but it's just used too much, especially for men. One black suit by one designer, another one by another - they all look the same in the end. If I walk into a crowded hotel lobby and I'm wearing a black suit, I just look like everyone else.
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures.
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
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Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
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Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
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Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
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