Quotes 621 till 640 of 4180.
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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
― Robert H. Schuller
American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015) -
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.
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Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
Source: Paradise lost (1667) I, 263 -
Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
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Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
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Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as ''nymphets.''
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Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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