Quotes 861 till 880 of 11531.
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A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
Atonement (2001) -
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Wuthering Heights (1847) -
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
Wings of Fire -
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
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A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2000) 13 -
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
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A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
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