Quotes with still-distant

Quotes 201 till 220 of 884.

  • Bill Mumy From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Robert Herrick Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • Henry L. Doherty Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
    Henry L. Doherty
    Irish-American financier and oilman
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  • William Ellery Channing God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Jean Paul Getty Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Aldous Huxley Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Hector Hugh Munro Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Ivan Boesky Greed is all right, by the way. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
    Ivan Boesky
    American stock trader (1937 - )
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  • William Congreve Grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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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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  • Samuel Butler He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Thomas Hobbes He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Lao-Tzu He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Stanislaw Jerzy Lec He who limps is still walking.
    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
    Polish writer (1909 - 1966)
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  • William Wordsworth Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Barry Lam High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But they don't admire the steam locomotive anymore.
    Barry Lam
    Taiwanese billionaire businessman (1949 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina Hillary Clinton lies about Benghazi, she lied about emails, she is still defending Planned Parenthood, and she is still her party's frontrunner.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Britney Spears Honestly, I still don't use my computer. My kids use the computer more than I do! I understand that a lot of people are into it, and I have days where I write and stuff, but it's really not for me. It's not my thing.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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