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Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.
Jim Carrey

Society, Before, Sometimes

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
Brendan Behan

Done, Themselves, Critics

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
William Butler Yeats

Men, Wife, Keep

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot

Best, Fear, Failure

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Plutarch

Character, Mind, Words

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry, Through, Leaving

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.
Marco Rubio

Leadership, Time, Days

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Great, Tolerance, Support

For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.
Nick Clegg

Time, End, Long

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.
Jim Carrey

Girl, Before, Try

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Michelangelo

Beauty, Else, Here

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking

God, Cannot, Sometimes

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis Bacon

Men, Giving, Together

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
E. O. Wilson

Bird, Tree, Ant

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
Louis L'Amour

Men, Often, Hear

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.
David Bowie

Mean, Put, Sometimes

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Through, Sky, Summer

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.
Richard Roeper

Work, Women, Men

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
Michel de Montaigne

Often, Courtesy, Civility

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Carl Sandburg

Life, Done, Made

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.
Chris Evans

Life, Times, Sunset

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.
Rush Limbaugh

Country, Before, Rest

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
Michel de Montaigne

Children, Play, Playing

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.
Dick Cheney

Time, Show, Point

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
Gore Vidal

Someone, Joke, Culture

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
William Cowper

Place, Solitude, Face

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
Carl Sandburg

Long, Black, Pictures

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Great, Words, Genius

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
Brendan Behan

Situation, Worse, Policeman

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Joseph Addison

Others, Prosperity, Virtues

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