Quotes 241 till 260 of 377.
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Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
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Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
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Pride takes such natural possession of us in the midst of our woes, errors, etc. We even lose our life with joy, provided people talk of it.
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Racing takes everything you've got - intellectually, emotionally, physically - and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.
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Rascals are always sociable - more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.
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Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
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Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
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Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
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Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
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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.
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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Thank God my hair is always the same. And I get dressed very quickly. I am not one of those people who spend three hours getting dressed. I never understood that. What do you do for the two and a half hours after the half hour it takes you to get ready?
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