Quotes 721 till 740 of 1397.
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Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!
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Oh, when I was in love with you
Then I was clean and brave,
And miles around the wonder grew
How well did I behave.
And now the fancy passes by
And nothing will remain,
And miles around they'll say that I
Am quite myself again.Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) -
Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
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On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.
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On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'
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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
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Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
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One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
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One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
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One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.
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One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.
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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''
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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
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Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
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