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Quotes 121 till 140 of 475.

  • George Sand Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Shana Alexander Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.
    Shana Alexander
    American journalist (1925 - 2005)
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  • Truman Capote Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Elsa Schiaparelli Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.
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  • John Cage Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
    John Cage
    American composer and music (1912 - 1992)
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  • Brendan Gleeson For me, it's just about keeping the standards up. We're a small country, so we have to punch above our weight. I'm not a great man for doing something just because it's Irish, and you never know what's going to work. But as long as we keep the standards up, people will continue to invest in films. It's as simple as that.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Carmen Busquets For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'
    Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
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  • Casey Affleck For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • A. R. Ammons For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Bill Camp Fortunately, I get asked to play - regardless of how big or small they are - some really interesting people who are part of great stories. So, as an actor, there's really nothing better.
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  • John Webster Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
    John Webster
    English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Aeschylus From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Abraham Kaplan Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovèd over all.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Bono God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Robert Herrick Great men by small means oft are overthrown.
    Hesperides (1648) Loss From The Least
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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