Quotes with sun-times

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  • William Wordsworth A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Bill Cosby A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Francis Bacon A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Lord Acton A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Bruce Davison Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Jeremy Taylor Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Bill Nye After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Carl Sagan After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being - and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Joel Hawes Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
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  • Carl Bernstein All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bayard Taylor And half in shade and half in sun; The Rose sat in her bower, With a passionate thrill in her crimson heart.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • John Donne And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Bram Stoker And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Billy Gardell And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your act. Whatever is happening in your life is what's going on on stage. So if you're angry in your life, then that's going to be on stage. If you're looking for the guy that's just going to make you laugh for an hour and forget about, that's me.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Any move made in a state of tension will be of more important, and will have more results, than it would have made in a state of eqilibrium. In times of maximum tension this importance will rise to an infinite degree.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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