Quotes 81 till 100 of 122.
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The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
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The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.
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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, ''I shall today be uppermost.''
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.
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There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.
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There's a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isn't always pretty.
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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.
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Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.
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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.
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Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.
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Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
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