“ If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 2.1K
“ It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly "I trust you, do what you must," life had an uncanny way of responding to your need. ”
- Olga Ilyin- Copy
- 602
“ Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. ”
- Jim Rohn- Copy
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“ Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels. ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
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“ In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn. ”
- Nathaniel Branden- Copy
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“ Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. ”
- Gaston Bachelard- Copy
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“ A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. ”
- Stanley Baldwin- Copy
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“ I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye. ”
- Jack Handy- Copy
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“ When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA. ”
- Condoleezza Rice- Copy
- 448
“ Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition. ”
- E. H. Chapin- Copy
- 3.9K
“ So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience. ”
- Moss Hart- Copy
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“ The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address. ”
- Matt Groening- Copy
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“ What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there. ”
- Achilles- Copy
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“ Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government. ”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau- Copy
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“ Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. ”
- John Updike- Copy
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“ Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service. ”
- George Edward Woodberry- Copy
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“ Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. ”
- Omar Khayyam- Copy
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“ Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash. ”
- Walter Richard Sickert- Copy
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“ One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings. ”
- Alexis Carrel- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The first key to wisdom is constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. ”
- Pierre Abelard- Copy
- 2.9K
“ To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
- 2.2K
“ True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. ”
- Henri B. Stendhal- Copy
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“ What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past. ”
- William Carlos- Copy
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“ Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented. ”
- Jimmy Breslin- Copy
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