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George Eliot Quote: 'Mortals are easily tempted to pinch ...'

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I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.
David Byrne
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When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.


George Orwell
There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
Sophocles
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.


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Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.


Edwin Markham
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Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?


Nicole Kidman
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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.


William Butler Yeats
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It is always edifying for mortals to look at a god.


Paul Horgan
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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.


George Steiner
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Walter Savage Landor
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.


Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I think sci-fi can easily be PG.


Ridley Scott
Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?
John Malkovich
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.


Malaika Arora Khan
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I had my children after eight years of marriage. It was a dream come true. I still pinch myself.


Nita Ambani
I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.
Meg Ryan
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A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.
John Updike
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I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, go out in some sort of blaze of glory. I never thought about sort of fading into obscurity. And I've worked so hard at having a life, an identity, in obscurity and finding peace with that.
Steve-O
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I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.
Tom Lehrer
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'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.


William Shakespeare