Six Quotes
2635 quotes by 2137 authors
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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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The best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best welfare program is…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London;…
— Edith Wharton
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I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and…
— George Sand
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You know, frankly, it's like I sort of realized something about life in the past six or eight months - that taking things a day…
— Andrew McMahon
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As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another…
— Benjamin Cardozo
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so…
— Larry Hagman
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You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.
— Julian Bond
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We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
— Janette Turner Hospital
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You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.
— Ken Burns
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Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about…
— Alex Chilton
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Most Russians don't care whether they are ruled by fascists or communists or even Martians as long as they can buy six kinds of sausage…
— Alexander Lebed
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It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.
— William Wyler
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're…
— Daniel H. Pink
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I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.
— Damon Runyon
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Ah, how lucky are the lieutenants, the six-foot Junkers, and all the rest of the Don Juan clan!... The bookworm, be he ever so decent…
— Theodor Fontane
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Many of my biggest business endeavors were failures before they became a success. Some failed for as long as six years before they hit. Everyone…
— Russell Simmons
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Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old…
— Dan Millman
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You are a real champion. You talk a lot over the past six months and it is going to be great to show you inside…
— Vitali Klitschko
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Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome with the overwhelming…
— James Patterson
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