Quotes 241 till 260 of 359.
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Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.
Source: Faceboek (2014) -
Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.
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Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
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Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.
Source: Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics -
Somewhere on the other side of this wide night
and the distance between us, I am thinking of you.
The room is turning slowly away from the moon.Source: Words, Wide Night, from The Other Country (1990) -
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
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Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.
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The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.
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The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
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The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
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The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
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The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
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The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter.
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