Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 2981.
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People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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People never believe in volcanous until the lava actually overtakes them.
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People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
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People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.
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People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
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People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.
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People who never get carried away should be.
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
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Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
Source: Midnight's Children (2010) 596 -
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
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Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
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