Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 1572.
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The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive at all. I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.
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The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom. When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.
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The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
The Dud Avocado (1958) I, 8 -
The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
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The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.
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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.
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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
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The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
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The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.
The White Tiger (2008) 22 -
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.
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The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
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