Arnold Lobel Quotes
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Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
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Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
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I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.
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In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.
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Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
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I try to eat on the healthier side, but baked goods are hard to resist. I just love sweet things.
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
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Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!
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We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.
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There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.
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Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Women inevitably have to work a little bit harder to be heard. Hollywood is disgustingly sexist. It's crazy.
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Flattery'll get you anywhere.
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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
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I certainly wake up every morning and thank God that I'm not a novelist because the theater is tough, but novel writing is infinitely harder. Especially with the economics of serious fiction being what they are in America.
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He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
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I want to be the band everyone knows that goes hardest. Plays the hardest, parties the hardest, lives the hardest, loves the hardest, does everything the hardest, harder than anybody else.
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From the twelve apostles to the Auca missionaries of our generation, the history of the Christian church is the history of “wasted” lives. The Christian may tabulate all the assets of his personality and take inventory of his preferences, but he casts all these at the feet of Christ. He is not seeking fulfillment but expendability. He counts not his life dear to himself, for he holds it in trust for Christ. His goal is beyond the grave; the crown of his high calling is in the hand of his risen Lord.
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I didn't know it was possible to simultaneously hate and ache for someone.
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Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.
