Quotes 921 till 940 of 945.
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You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.
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You nodded off in my arms watching tv
I won't move you an inch
Even though my arm's asleep.Source: Lyrics Gracie, Songs for Silverman (2005) -
You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
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You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.
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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
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You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.
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You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.
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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.
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A ''modern'' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
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A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles... it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
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Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
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I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters.
Source: Speech Sioux Center, Iowa, januari 2016 -
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
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I start where the last man left off.
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