Quotes 941 till 960 of 11531.
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A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.
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A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.
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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591) -
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
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Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.
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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
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Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
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Above all, what is oddest to the outsider is that Aborigines just aren't there.
In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000) -
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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