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Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 1807.

  • A. R. Ammons Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Bryan Singer Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • John Wesley Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
    John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
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  • John Foster Dulles Once, many, many years ago, I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • Thomas Wolfe One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Carl Sagan One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Sir Walter Scott One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Forest Witcraft One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Bode Miller One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Alan Cohen One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Napoleon One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Bruce Dickinson One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Burgess Owens One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bobby Schilling One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.
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  • Ben Zobrist One-hundred years from now, nobody's going to remember that I played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays - nobody!
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Malcolm Bradbury Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
    Malcolm Bradbury
    English author and academic (1932 - 2000)
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  • Charles III Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
    Charles III
    King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (1948 - )
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