Quotes 8741 till 8760 of 11114.
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What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.
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What I've found, and what Scripture tells us, is that your faith is not something on the side, something you carry with you - it is inherently who you are.
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What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.
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What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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What is a friend? I will tell you… it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
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What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?
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What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
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What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.
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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.
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What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms.
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What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
Source: The Book of Illusions (2009) 32 -
What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.
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