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Quotes 441 till 460 of 1724.

  • Calvin Harris Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Brock Yates Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.
    Brock Yates
    American journalist and author (1933 - 2016)
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  • Thomas Traherne Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Iris Murdoch Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Dalai Lama (14th) Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
    Dalai Lama (14th)
    Tibetan spiritual leader (Tenzin Gyatso) (1935 - )
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  • Pierre Corneille Happiness seems made to be shared.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Thomas Traherne Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • David Grayson Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.
    David Grayson
    American journalist, historian and author, pen name of Ray Baker (1870 - 1946)
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  • Abraham Cowley Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Hosea Ballou Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Carolyn Murphy Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Thomas A. Bennett Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
    Thomas A. Bennett
    Irish Carmelite priest
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  • Thomas Arnold Bennett Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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  • Friedrich von Schiller He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • John Lennon He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Judy Garland He gave me a look at myself I've never had before. He saw something in me nobody else ever did. He made me see it too. He made me believe it.
    Judy Garland
    American singer and actress (1922 - 1969)
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  • Sydney Smith He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Horace He has half the deed done who has made a beginning
    Horace
    Roman poet
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