Irving Babbitt Quotes
Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
Irving Babbitt
Quotes to Explore
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
Zoe Saldana
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Broadway is really my life.
Vanessa Williams
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
Zachary Gordon
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
E. W. Howe
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When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.
Karen Finerman
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
Ignatius of Antioch
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
Ted Turner
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
Samuel Gompers
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
Lana Turner
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
Veronica Roth
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A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.
John Hodgman
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Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
Sam Houston
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I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.
Dave Davies
The Kinks
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Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know.
Kenneth Grahame
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I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of a bike trip to Chile. I have this fantasy of flying into Morocco. But right now, it's about getting the work done and getting home to family. I have an adventure every morning, getting up.
Brad Pitt
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
Irving Babbitt
