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Quotes 881 till 900 of 1633.

  • Peter Ustinov Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • C. Thomas Howell 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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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Virginia Woolf One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Oscar Wilde 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.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Laurence Sterne One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Mrs. Humphrey Ward One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
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  • Robert Collier 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.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • J. B. Priestley One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Louis Kronenberger 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.
    Louis Kronenberger
    American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz 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.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher 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.''
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • George Eliot One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • F. Swinnerton Other people are very like ourselves: they are shy and well meaning.
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Butch Trucks Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Thomas Paine Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS - our inferior one varies with the place.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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