Quotes 281 till 300 of 359.
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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
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The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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The time of life is short: to spend that shortness basely were too long.
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The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way to produce real growth. It is not. You've got to spend money.
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The U.S. has a stronger military than Israel, but, but don't short-change Israel, either. Don't short-change them.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.
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The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
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Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.
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There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
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There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.
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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
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There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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