- Need
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
- You
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- Nov 07, 2020
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
- Nov 07, 2020
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open-ended chequebook.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republicans have to be mindful about reaching out more to Hispanics, not only because they're the fastest growing minority, but also because we share their conservative values on marriage and life.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when the book world was in distress, offering a vital new source of sales.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.
- Compromise
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even while writing about foreign places, I have been in a way writing about America, because that's the subject that interests me the most. I'm attached to it, critical, but it's definitely my country, and maybe even more so when I'm overseas.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between a reporter, a newspaper columnist, a paid speaker, a television personality, a radio talk show host, a blogger, a movie producer, a publicist, and a political strategist, is growing less - and not more - distinct.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, America had become more like Wal-Mart. It had gotten cheap. Prices were lower, and wages were lower. There were fewer union factory jobs and more part-time jobs as greeters.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020