Walter B. Pitkin Quotes
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Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.
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I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
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Saint Ignatius was a convert and disciple of S. John the Evangelist. He was appointed by S. Peter to succeed Evodius in the see of Antioch, and he continued in his bishopric full forty years.
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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
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Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.
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I suddenly became aware over the last couple of years that I'm in my sixties. I never thought about it. I thought I'd better start acting my age or find roles that are going to be interesting to me in the sexagenarian repertoire, because it's not what you do in your forties or fifties.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses...
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Everything begins and ends with that special person's presence. All you want is them, around you.
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What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.
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All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.
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Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
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Existence begins in every instant.
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To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!
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I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.
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My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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There's a lot of stuff like that that American's don't know and since a lot of Americans don't have a passport, I'll get a passport for them and since a lot of Americans don't know what a war looks like thirty, forty years later and it's still doing damage.
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A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!
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We have momentum on our side ... I think we'll have a good result.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Life begins at age forty.
