Quotes with still-distant

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  • Victor Hugo Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Callie Hernandez Since I started acting, I had to quit a lot of bad habits. I've tried to stop biting my nails, because people always look at your nails during auditions. Truth be told, I still have a 'cheat nail,' but I've been cheating less and less.
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  • Bayard Taylor So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Art Buchwald So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many, are starting to wonder why I'm still around.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Brandi Chastain So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Brit Morin Society is still adapting to women being CEOs and professionals rather than homemakers. Because of this, the unfortunate outcome is that we feel we have to be successful at both - in the office and in the home. Striking that balance is different for everyone.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Bob Peterson Some of my favorite media is the still cartoon that you can sit and study. You can get amazing metaphors across really quickly. I'm in awe of a Charles Schulz.
    Bob Peterson
    American filmmaker, animator and screenwriter
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record - Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Robert H. Schuller Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Berenice Abbott Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
    Berenice Abbott
    American photographer (1898 - 1991)
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  • Studs Terkel Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.
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  • Arthur Koestler Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • George Eliot Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Charles Swindoll Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.
    Charles Swindoll
    American Pastor, writer
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  • Rupert Brooke Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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  • Robert Collier Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Beth Ditto Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Matthew Arnold Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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