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From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs… — Manny Farber
I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less to a degree,… — Bruno Heller
Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken. — Jean-Claude Juncker
Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one’s breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that… — Larry Watson
On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly… — Penelope Fitzgerald
Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not… — Leonardo da Vinci
When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large. — Juvenal
Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted… — George Washington
So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call… — Alexander Pope
I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker — Adolf Hitler
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to… — Harry Mathews
Four years ago, the perpetrators believed they would bring America and the rest of the world to chaos, ... But they were mistaken. — Vladimir Putin
I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes. — E. J. Hughes
The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely… — Roald Amundsen
The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the new… — Richard M. Nixon
But some of these theories are so bold that they can clash with reality: they are the testable theories of science. And when they clash,… — Karl Popper
Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to… — C.S. Lewis
He that speaks much, is much mistaken. — Benjamin Franklin
Unfortunately, I've never been mistaken as Johnny Depp. — Gilbert Gottfried
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. — Oliver Cromwell
A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. — Claude Debussy
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as… — Desiderius Erasmus
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience. — Kin Hubbard
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower… — Douglas William Jerrold

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