Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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I was bitten by an octopus.
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The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
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In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you're no longer a fan. I don't root for the Dodgers, really. I just try to do the game as best I can. And the winning and the losing will take care of itself.
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Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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I didn't go to the cinema a lot when I was young.
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Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama.
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We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.
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As a symbol of love it does not quite work for her, since its overwhelming beauty demands a passive response that is irritating to the adventurous.
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This is the way how we have to understand the accounts of trials; we must not think that God desires to examine us and to try us in order to know what He did not know before. Far is this from Him; He is far above that which ignorant and foolish people imagine concerning Him, in the evil of their thoughts. Note this.
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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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Las certidumbres sólo se alcanzan con los pies.
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If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.
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Everything in life is like a class if you can operate in a capacity to be open for the lesson.
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Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what their take on my delivery is or what they think that I can do with something. So I kind of leave that to them.
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'The contingency is remote.' (This is also a Jeeves quote in the PG Wodehouse Novels)
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At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health.
Sandra Lerner -
The music itself is very challenging, so I've never really felt the lack of stimulation. I love to be creating; I love to be making things and solving problems, I suppose, and when I'm not, then I'm not an incredibly good person to be around. If I'm not busy, then I think I would be disaster. That's just the way things are.
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My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
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They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
