Ebenezer Elliott Quotes
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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
V. S. Naipaul
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People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.
Eddie Trunk
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I'm a Taylor Swift fan, definitely.
Maisie Williams
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Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall
Stevie Wonder
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We'll recognize and respect whoever emerges as a leader through this system. Our concern, however, is that they (the Iraqis) have to make swift progress to secure a leader.
Jack Straw
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I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication... Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously...
Lee De Forest
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My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.
Alfred Austin
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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
Oscar Wilde
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The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.
Abraham Lincoln
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Life is short and the art long.
Hippocrates
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.
Confucius
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As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.
Lord Byron
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Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.
John Milton
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
Erica Jong
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Life is short, so fall in love, dear maiden, before your youthful ardor cools off, for there is no tomorrow.
Atsushi
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He is in youth swift, pliant and merry, and leapeth and rusheth on all thing that is before him; and is lead by a staw and playeth there with.
Bartholomeus Anglicus
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Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish.
Benny Hill
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Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.
Eddie Campbell
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My voice is definitely a big present for me from God, because it's not like I can even take credit for it.
Macy Gray
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When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.
Zach Woods
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Life is short, and time is swift; Roses fade, and shadows shift.
Ebenezer Elliott