John Webster Quotes
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
John Webster
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Walter Scott
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Without electricity, the air would rot.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.
Nancy Gibbs
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Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.
Ian Lustick
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When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism.
Said Nursi
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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. Like the wide heaven, the all-sustaining air, It makes the reptile equal to the God; They who inspire it most are fortunate, As I am now; but those who feel it most Are happier still.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years.
Ben Bernanke
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Drink a lot of water, wear big sunglasses, and don't wear make-up on the flight.
Doutzen Kroes
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Oh, I'd never put my elbows on the table.
Mary Berry
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
Yann Martel
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In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
John Webster