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Quotes 301 till 320 of 1861.

  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Amelia Barr Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Ada Louise Huxtable Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There is no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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  • Bruce Willis Every day I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Bruce Willis Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Ali Smith Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Every little thing counts in a crisis.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Josh Billings Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • C. S. Lewis Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
    A preface to Paradise Lost
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.
    The Great Divorce (1944)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Every thing of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Lord Acton Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Betty Parsons Every time I learn a new thing to do on my computer, I have to write it down so that I can remember it.
    Betty Parsons
    American artist, art dealer, and collector (1900 - 1982)
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  • John Irving Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Saul Bellow Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
    Saul Bellow
    American writer (1915 - 2005)
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  • Brooke Shields Everybody says, 'When you have kids, you really get away from yourself.' But really, it's the most selfish thing I've ever done. It's like, Okay, I'm going to create unconditional love for myself, and I'm going to need it and want it and ask for it every day, and I'm going to get it.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Meg Greenfield Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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