Quotes with things-blocking

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  • Logan Pearsall Smith There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, ''Is it good in itself?'' In the second, ''Can it be easily put into practice?''
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Lord Acton There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Freya Stark There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
    Freya Stark
    British travel story writer (1893 - 1993)
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  • Barry Sternlicht There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • Billy Campbell There have been times when I've been asked to do things and I've thought, 'This is great! This is a great script. But, I do not believe myself in this role.' I pretend I'm the producer and I think, 'If I was making this movie, would I cast myself in this part,' and if that doesn't feel right to me, then I don't even go audition for it.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Carl Sagan There is a lurking fear that some things are 'not meant' to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human being to make.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
    The Sabbath (1951) p. 3
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Bram Stoker There is a reason why all things are as they are.
    Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Benjamin Jowett There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
    Attributed. Also attributed to Anita Loos.
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II There is a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied by material things alone - by better cars on longer credit terms.
    Speech DNC 17-08-1956
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Chatterton There is a time for all things - except marriage my dear.
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  • Bob Moses There is a weariness... from constant attention to the things you are doing, the struggle of good against evil.
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  • Alphonse de Lamartine There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
    Alphonse de Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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  • Callum Keith Rennie There is always this perception that you want to shoot for the top, but I think there's this great place to shoot for the middle and get consistent work and try different things and do the work you want to do with the kind of people you want to do it with.
    Callum Keith Rennie
    British-born Canadian actor (1960 - )
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  • Vera Brittain There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • David Lehman There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej There is an English saying that the king is always happy, or, 'happy as the king' - which is not true at all. But I can be as happy as a king if all of you know what is right and what is wrong and cooperate to fix things.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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