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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. (Marcus Aurelius)
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. View quote
Edmund Burke
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities. View quote
Sarah Palin
Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal. View quote
Uma Thurman
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements. View quote
Norman Mailer
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline. View quote
George S. Patton
I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. (Mary McCarthy)
There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
Happiness is a sort of action. View quote
Aristotle
I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow. View quote
Gordon Ramsay
Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him? View quote
Tom Clancy
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH... (Jack Kerouac)
The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all. View quote
Protagoras
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us. View quote
William Penn
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. View quote
Iris Murdoch