- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.
- Hay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.
- Disapprove
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- Nov 07, 2020
It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain.
- Nov 07, 2020
Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
- Nov 07, 2020
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
- Fattest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's good to bring a different feel to tennis, and that's what I feel like I bring. I bring a different feel, a different swagger to tennis. I'm very easygoing, and very nonchalant, it looks like, when I'm out there - I've got a little strut, and I like that.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020