Quotes with ring-and-thimble

Quotes 2541 till 2560 of 25160.

  • Algernon H. Blackwood And so with all things: names were vital and important.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • John F. Kennedy And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • James Elroy Flecker And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.
    James Elroy Flecker
    English poet (1884 - 1915)
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  • Bob Dylan And something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Barbara Castle And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Omar Khayyam And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help - for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Barbara Castle And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Khaled Hosseini And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Robin Williams And that's when you realize that God gave you a penis and a brain, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
    Live on Broadway (2002)
    Robin Williams
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1951 - 2014)
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  • Berkeley Breathed And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • Anais Nin And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: ''A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.''
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ''It's pretty, but is it Art?''
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Bob Dylan And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul
    To the old folks home and the college
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Bertolt Brecht And the shark he has his teeth and
    There they are for all to see
    And Macheath he has his knife but
    No one knows where it may be.
    The Threepenny Opera The Moritat of Mackie the Knife in Prologue, p. 3
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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