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After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
Edward Hopper

Character, After, Try

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Charles Caleb Colton

Future, May, Living

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.
Judd Rose

Power, Crazy, Abuse

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Ogden Nash

Happy, Children, Parents

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.
Ernst Moritz Arndt

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
Emile M. Cioran

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
Julia Ward Howe

Happiness, Future, Fear

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
Ramakrishna

Travel, Find, Here

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
Theodor Adorno

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
Theodor Adorno

End, Makes, System

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
Theodor Adorno

Thought, Last, Once

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
Paul Cezanne

Though, Knew, Thousand

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
Paul Cezanne

Art, Alone, End

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.
Richard M. Nixon

Big, Happens, Shout

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.
Marco Rubio

Love, Time, Compromise

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
Baltasar Gracian

Time, Business, Else

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
O. Henry

Love, Religion, Family

I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.
Layne Staley

True, Read, Rumors

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
Jean de La Fontaine

Wise, Enemy, Friend

What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.
Steve Martin

Great, God, Writing

There is nothing you can control about love.
Jennifer Aniston

You train your man to do nothing.
Jennifer Aniston

If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.
Dave Barry

Find, Moment, Baby

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
Camille Paglia

Women, Men, Envy

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
Alfred Hitchcock

Good, Simple, Sea

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
Daisaku Ikeda

Love, Patience, Impossible

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.
Arlen Specter

Good, Health, Important

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
Doug Coupland

Fact, Almost, Common

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.
Doug Coupland

Else, Used, Alive

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.
William Shatner

Life, Business, Found

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