Quotes 301 till 320 of 634.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all.
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Look up, and not down; Out and not in; Forward and not back; And lend a hand.
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Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.
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Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's ''good luck.'' You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.
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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
Bernard M. Baruch
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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
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Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
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Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
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Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
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Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
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