Quotes with worth-while

Quotes 961 till 980 of 1020.

  • Nido R. Qubein Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people
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  • Vince Lombardi Winning is not a sometime thing; It's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Art Spiegelman With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
    Art Spiegelman
    American cartoonist and editor (1948 - )
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  • Bill Pullman With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.
    Bill Pullman
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Raymond Chandler Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Abba Goold Woolson Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Henry Fielding Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Samuel Johnson Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Socrates Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Alexander Herzen Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Antonin Artaud Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Billie Holiday Yes, the strong gets more
    While the weak ones fade
    Empty pockets don't ever make the grade
    Mama may have, Papa may have
    But God bless the child that's got his own
    That's got his own.
    God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • T. S. Eliot You are the music while the music lasts.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Victor Kiam You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.
    Victor Kiam
    American businessman (1926 - 2001)
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  • Dick Armey You cannot go ahead while you are getting even.
    Dick Armey
    American economist and politician (1940 - )
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