Quotes 1301 till 1320 of 5636.
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Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
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Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.
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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.
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Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
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How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.
Source: The Middle Ground (2013) 41 -
How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?
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How many members of the fleshbound masses do you think will listen to him? He's making sense, and they don't respond to that.
Source: Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991) -
How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again?...Seventy percent. What the fuck? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?
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How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
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How much greater confidence has an advocate, retained with a large fee, in the justice of his cause! How much better does his bold manner make his case appear to the judges, deceived as they are by appearances! How ludicrous is reason, blown with a breath in every direction!
Source: Pensees (1669)
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