Quotes 3541 till 3560 of 3724.
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With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.
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With upper- and middle-class lawns, there's more hidden, whereas with working-class or poor lawns, there's more out to see. It just sits right out there. Very honest. Like the people.
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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
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Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard
Tinselworm -
Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.
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Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
Angelina Grimke
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
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Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
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Words like ''freedom,'' ''justice,'' ''democracy'' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.
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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
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