Quotes with still-distant

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  • William Shakespeare Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bob Dole President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Walt Whitman Press close bare-bosomed night - press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Alexander Pope Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Walter Lippmann Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Leonard Cohen Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Barry Hannah Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Armstrong Williams Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Boris Spassky Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Aldo Leopold Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Burns Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Right before I graduated from the national theatre school, I got the part of Roxie Hart in 'Chicago' in Copenhagen. That led to me playing it here in London. I was 26 when I came over for that. It was the first thing I did as a professional, and it is still the experience of my life.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Barten Holyday River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.
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  • Billy Corgan Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Bill Clinton Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen She went away, she cut me like a knife
    Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life
    In just a glance, down here on magic street
    Loves a fool's dance
    And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.
    Magic (2007) Girls in Their Summer Clothes
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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