- Big Bang
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- Nov 07, 2020
More Quotes
Quotes on wanting and having more.
These quotes explore the idea of 'more' - a director admitting to more confidence behind the camera than as a writer, and a novelist noting how fictional characters can carry more vitality than the people around them. Related pages include Life Quotes.
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- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you get older, you treasure the beautiful things of the past but also see things more clearly.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
- Quiet
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe blow to the health of the U.S. economy than to the history of the novel.
- Bubble
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Japan, more than in any other country I've ever been in, one is not supposed to write about the people in the glass bubble; that is why they are in the glass bubble.
- Photographer
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
- Champion
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- Nov 07, 2020
There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
- Guilty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.
- War
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all that our wisdom and valour and the fortune of war will permit.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020