Quotes with read-through

Quotes 1001 till 1020 of 1554.

  • Washington Irving Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Margaret Drabble Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Barry Switzer Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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  • Jim Rohn Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Brad Feld Some Sundays, I read it quickly - other Sundays, I savor it. I generally spend most of my time in 'The New York Times Book Review,' 'Sunday Business,' 'Sunday Review,' and 'The New York Times Magazine.' I turn all the other pages, only stopping when I find a headline that interests me.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Dwight L. Moody Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Bayard Taylor Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.
    Mother Courage and Her Children Mother Courage
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Jonathan Swift Sometimes I read a book with pleasure, and detest the author.
    Works (1754)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bill Goldberg Sometimes I think back to everything I've been through, and I wonder, 'Man, how the hell did I get here?'
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Carl Honore Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull,
    And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull.
    At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
    and a freight train running through the middle of my head.
    Only you can cool my desire.
    Oh, I'm on fire.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Im On Fire
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Adrienne Clarkson Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.
    Adrienne Clarkson
    Hong Kong-born Canadian journalist and stateswoman (1939 - )
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  • Lewis Thomas Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Benny Blanco Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you're just gonna have to work through that wall. But if you know something is there, you've gotta just keep doing it until you get it right. So, I'll work on a song for three months if I have to, to get it right.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Bob Weir Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.
    Bob Weir
    American musician and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Bob Diamond Soon after the financial crisis of 2008, I was at a meeting in Washington with a group of U.S. senators. They had invited me to provide a point of view on new regulation; regulation aimed at ensuring we never have to go through the events of 2008 ever again.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Adolf Hitler Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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