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1068 quotes by 905 authors
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
— Zoe Kazan
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One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms…
— Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
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Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint,…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind…
— Bodhidharma
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We're going to have plenty of work to do, but it's going to be a lot easier than here. There'll be no sorrow, no sickness,…
— David Berg
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Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing in Heaven. We're…
— David Berg
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I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to denote all of…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated…
— Charles Darwin
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The sport has changed so much since 2004, it's incredible. If you look even at me, the way I'm fencing now compared to 2004, it's…
— Mariel Zagunis
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The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin,…
— Eric Hoffer
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The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should…
— Eric Hoffer
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The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.
— Eric Hoffer
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There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde;…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or…
— Charles de Gaulle
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How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of…
— William Cowper
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Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of…
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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I've always thought of myself as an Expo. I probably had better seasons with the Cubs. The fan base and the bleacher bums at Wrigley…
— Andre Dawson
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I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.
— Carl Sagan
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Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost?…
— Thomas Sowell
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