Best Pearls Qoutes
394 Pearls quotes by 314 unique authors
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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
— Joseph Hall
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The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks,…
— Mark Helprin
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
— Victor Hugo
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I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
— Mahalia Jackson
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new…
— John Keats
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia,…
— Walter Payton
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I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an…
— Chris Pratt
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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle…
— Pythagoras
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
— Dan Rather
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We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
— Ronald Reagan
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See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is…
— Samuel Rutherford
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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
— Gertrude Stein
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
— Eddie Vedder
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Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back…
— Steven Van Zandt
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My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and…
— Sigourney Weaver
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Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis…
— George Will
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It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al…
— John Yoo
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It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all…
— Pat Conroy
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On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade,…
— William Shakespeare
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No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts…
— W G Sebald
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
— Victor Hugo
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Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and…
— Virginia Woolf
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