Quotes 861 till 880 of 1861.
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Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.
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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
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No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
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No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
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No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?
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Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
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Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free.
Source: Last Man in Tower (2011) 419
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