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Quotes 1781 till 1800 of 2981.

  • Bill Murray No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Tacitus No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Jane Austen Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Cassandra Clare Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning in a bottle.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Archibald Alexander None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Anthony Holden Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • George Meredith Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • George M. Adams Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
    George M. Adams
    American newspaper columnist (1878 - 1962)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Cher Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. To us, exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
    Cher
    American singer and actress (1946 - )
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  • C. Lamb Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing troubles less, as I never think about them.
    C. Lamb
     
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  • Charles Lamb Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Garrison Keillor Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • A. E. Housman Now hollow fires burn out to black,
    And lights are guttering low:
    Square your shoulders, lift your pack,
    And leave your friends and go.

    Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,
    Look not to left nor right:
    In all the endless road you tread
    There's nothing but the night.
    Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Buzz Osborne Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clearly obvious that 99.9 percent of them know nothing at all about music. Nothing. I find this to be quite strange, really. It's like someone who works in a bakery knowing nothing about baking.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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