Quotes 481 till 500 of 1107.
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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
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Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.
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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
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Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.
Source: The Rules of Attraction (2010) 64 -
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance.
Source: Het leven van Pi p.18 -
Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.
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Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.
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Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.
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Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
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Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
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Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
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Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
Source: The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
Source: The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography (1978 edition), U of Nebraska Press -
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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