Quotes with over-preoccupation

Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1100.

  • Carl Hagelin When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Arthur Wellesley When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • George Eliot When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Jane Austen When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • William E. Vaughan When the insects take over the world we hope they will remember, with gratitude, how we took them along on all our picnics.
    William E. Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Bill Hybels When the spirit of adoration takes over and we begin pondering God's attributes, we soon say from the heart, 'I am praying to a tremendous God!' Which only motivates us to keep on praying.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • George Macdonald When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Thomas Carlyle When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Brad Feld When we raised the first Foundry Group fund in 2007, we took over 100 first meetings. We told our story several hundred times. As part of it was a slide called 'Strategy.' I still repeat the elements of that slide regularly, a decade later, as our core strategy has not changed.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Ben Schnetzer When we were shooting 'The Book Thief,' I was keeping all these journals. And I remember talking to my mom, really trying to verbalize all the experiences I was having. And I remember my mom saying, 'Ben, reflection is a retroactive process.' When you're going through it, that's the time to just let it wash over you.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Cyril Connolly When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment. A shows B that he has read something of B s. Will B show A? If not, then A hates B, if yes, then all is well. The only other way for writers to meet is to share a quick pee over a common lamp-post.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Bill Walton When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Eileen Caddy When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Amy Clampitt When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.
    Amy Clampitt
    American poet and author
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  • Audrey Hepburn When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
    Audrey Hepburn
    British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian (1929 - 1993)
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  • Bill Flores When you look at all of the conservative groups in town and across the country, we all agree on the same things. Where we sometimes get into a disagreement is over the tactics to get to the endpoint.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative ''success mechanism'' within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or ''willpower.''
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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