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13535 quotesThe State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees.
Committees and Meetings
V. S. Pritchett
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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
Cities and City Life
Herbert Prochnow
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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
Humor
J. J. Procter
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Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.
Night
Bryan Waller Proctor
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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
Money
Sextus Propertius
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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.
Life and Living
Fred Propp Jr.
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Property is theft.
Property
Pierre Joseph Proudhon
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A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
Expectation
Marcel Proust
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Weather
Marcel Proust
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Arts and Artists
Marcel Proust
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Happiness
Marcel Proust
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.
Love Ended
Marcel Proust
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Risk
Marcel Proust
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
Relationships
Marcel Proust
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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Charm
Marcel Proust
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The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.
Habit
Marcel Proust
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Childhood
Marcel Proust
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What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
Things and Little Things
Marcel Proust
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
Giving
Proverb
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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
Friends and Friendship
Proverb
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A mother's heart is always with her children.
Mothers
Proverb
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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.
Children
Proverb
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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
Wealth
Proverb
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Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains.
Fights and Fighting
Proverb
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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.
Crime and Criminals
Proverb
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun