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J. B. Priestley has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin…
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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle…
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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must…
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin…
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
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Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick…
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There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent…
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have…
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but…
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Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an…
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The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for…
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We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio…
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We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that…
— Dave Barry
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Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Complaining about the weather seems to be a favorite American pastime. Sadly, we Christians often get caught up in this ungodly habit…
— Jerry Bridges
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If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
— John Churton Collins
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Sometimes we complain, but there is something beautiful about waking up before everyone to get better at what we love.
— Missy Franklin
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I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all…
— Robert E. Lee
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When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new…
— Helen Keller
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We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not…
— J I Packer
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Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account…
— Franz Kafka
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Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have…
— Theophan the Recluse
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Within each of us there is an Owl, a Rabbit, and Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the…
— Benjamin Hoff
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Demons don't move because we complain. They move because we speak the name of Jesus.
— Mike Bickle
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