Old Story Quotes
44 quotes by 41 authors
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There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since…
— Bjarne Stroustrup
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I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and…
— Laurens van der Post
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Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related…
— Swami Vivekananda
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It's the old story. You might be able to fool your coaches, or your teammates, or your opponents. But, you can never fool yourself in…
— Unknown Author
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It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories.…
— Thomas Berry
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It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.
— Jack O'Connell
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I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and…
— Isak Dinesen
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Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of…
— Vivian Mercier
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Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
— Paul Samuelson
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There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if…
— Auberon Waugh
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It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.
— Travis Tritt
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Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop…
— Sarah Michelle Gellar
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You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old, old story. It…
— Ralph McGill
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We have to create miracles. A miracle is not the intersession of an external divine agency in violation of the laws of physics. A miracle…
— Charles Eisenstein
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Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.
— Leon Wieseltier
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Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not…
— Frances Power Cobbe
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Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare…
— Laura Ingraham
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Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I…
— Herbert M. Shelton
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It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the…
— Frederick Lenz
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It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional…
— James McBride
Who Wrote These Old Story Quotes
41 authors contributed a total of 44 Old Story Quotes, led by these top contributors: