Tasted Quotes
297 quotes by 250 authors
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And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his…
— Plato
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A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root…
— Gautama Buddha
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened; they revolt me. That round white thing without any holes, and when you break it, inside there’s that…
— Alfred Hitchcock
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The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it....
— Marcel Proust
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If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will…
— T. B. Joshua
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I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
— Ann Radcliffe
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Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
— Anna Pavlova
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I tasted freedom and I really liked it.
— Phil Lynott
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It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything…
— Jean Toomer
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Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
— Maurice de Vlaminck
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I am in England and the food here is not to be tasted as much as just swallowed without grimacing.
— Kristen Gilbert
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As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky one remarked -- referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omlette without breaking…
— Margaret Thatcher
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He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself
— Marsilio Ficino
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Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.
— Leopold Kronecker
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The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
— Mark Nepo
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I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read…
— Anne Rivers Siddons
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Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security and prestige it begins to find it more…
— Steven Biko
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When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in a lovely pool of sauce…
— Laurie Colwin
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Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy,…
— George Santayana
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