Quotes 421 till 440 of 1586.
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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
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How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
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Hundreds of years ago, the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street. The first foreign writers who arrived and saw this could never get past just how incredibly beautiful their feet were.
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I always like to say to people who want to be rich and famous, try being rich first. See if that doesn't cover most of it.
Source: I know how to be sour, The Guardian, December 2003 -
I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing, but man's failures.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.
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I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.
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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
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I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
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I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
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I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
Source: Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 6 -
I can't tell you the thrill and joy of when I was cast in my first Broadway show. Granted, it was 'Starlight Express' and it was exhausting, but it was my first time on Broadway, and there was nothing like it.
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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
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