"The war years count double. Things and people……" — Arnold Bennett
"The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast."
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Arnold Bennett
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82 Quotes by Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett has 82 quotes on this site.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior…
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We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served…
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
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A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to…
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of…
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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin…
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We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time…
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There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its…
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More Actively Quotes
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path…
— Irving Babbitt
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John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he…
— Michele Bachmann
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In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively…
— Stephen Baldwin
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The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended…
— Gerry Adams
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A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of…
— Ruth Benedict
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in…
— Warren Buffett
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If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.
— Jeb Bush
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Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.
— Nicolas Cage
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I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.
— Nicolas Cage
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There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One…
— Nicolas Cage
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When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con…
— Nicolas Cage
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Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and…
— Jeff Sessions
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