“ To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it. ”
- Leszczynski Stanislaus- Copy
- 261
“ Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted,I sometimes wonder if we shall not findThat not by deeds, but by what we've resisted,Our places are assigned. ”
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox- Copy
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“ Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places. ”
- Franz Kafka- Copy
- 1K
“ My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'. ”
- Julia Roberts- Copy
- 3K
“ Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man. ”
- Mary Lyon- Copy
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“ Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening. ”
- Arthur Hertzberg- Copy
- 2K
“ There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed. ”
- John Negroponte- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months. ”
- Bill Tammeus- Copy
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“ Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money. ”
- Joey Bishop- Copy
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“ Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ”
- Margaret Lee Runbeck- Copy
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“ I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman. ”
- Bruce Baum- Copy
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“ A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
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“ Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. ”
- Channing Pollock- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. ”
- Harrison Ford- Copy
- 506
“ In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. ”
- John J. Ingalls- Copy
- 3K
“ In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. ”
- Bob Dylan- Copy
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“ It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed… Great necessities call out great virtues. ”
- Abigail Adams- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law. ”
- Sir William Jones- Copy
- 1K
“ The philosophers must station themselves in the middle. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 1.4K
“ To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life. ”
- Sarah Ellis- Copy
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