Quotes with still-distant

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  • Agatha Christie I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
    An Autobiography (1977)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Bruce Cockburn I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn't likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Peggy Noonan I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Adolf Galland I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Winston Churchill I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Anna Quindlen I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Alexander Henry I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
    Alexander Henry
    American painter
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  • T. S. Eliot I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bertrand Russell I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
    Collection 1: , Brighthouse
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Douglas Macarthur I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • George Eliot I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals…
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Tom Stoppard I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • John Burroughs I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Adam Sandler I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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