Quotes with one-liners

Quotes 4601 till 4620 of 5903.

  • Marianne Williamson The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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  • Napoleon The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Afif Safieh The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few.
    Afif Safieh
     
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Oscar Wilde The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carlos Castaneda The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • James Baldwin The trick is to love somebody... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ian McEwan The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Bob Kane The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Billie Jean King The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Anzia Yezierska The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Anthony Trollope The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • James Russell Lowell The true use of a letter is to let one know that one is remembered and valued.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Baltasar Gracian The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Madame de Maintenon The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
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  • Hermann Hesse The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Helen Hayes The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
    Helen Hayes
    American actress (1900 - 1993)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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