Prime Quotes - Page 9

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

Franz Grillparzer

Children, Knowledge, Men

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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.

Anthony Trollope

Clever, Mean, Should Have

Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn”, p.281, e-artnow

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In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys' bodies change and that changes everything else. But the memories are not erased of that safest time in the lives of men, when their prime concern was playing games with guys who just wanted to be their friendly competitors. Life never again gets so simple.

Frank Pittman

Memories, Boys, Simple

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Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us how tobe men. He can escape us, but we can never escape him. Present or absent, dead or alive, real or imagined, our father is the main man in our masculinity.

Frank Pittman

Father, Real, Boys

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When I behold the heavens as in their prime,
And then the earth (though old) still clad in green,
The stones and trees, insensible of time,
Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen

Anne Bradstreet

Beauty, Wrinkles, Tree

Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.209, Harvard University Press

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Then be not coy, but use your time;
And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime,
You may for ever tarry.

Robert Herrick

Use, May, Rose Buds

'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'

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Rosalynn said, "Jimmy, if we could only get Prime Minister Begin and President Sadat up here on this mountain for a few days, I believe they might consider how they could prevent another war between their countries." That gave me the idea, and a few weeks later, I invited both men to join me for a series of private talks. In September 1978, they both came to Camp David.

Jimmy Carter

Country, Peace, War

Jimmy Carter (1995). “Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation”, Puffin

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Religion is rarely mentioned in current prime-time dramas or sitcoms that supposedly reflect the way we live now.

Dan Wakefield

Christian, Religious, Drama

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I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a Prime Minister.

Christine Milne

Thinking, Australia, Female

"Meet the Press" with Kathryn Robinson, www.news.com.au. March 24, 2013.

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Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

John Hench

Artist, Names, Example

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Last night, President Bush gave a prime-time press conference. It was such a big deal that Fox decided to preempt American Idol. Which made sense to me, you don't want too many amateurs on in one night.

David Letterman

Night, Idols, President

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A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent earnings. Well, there are companies whose earnings are excellent but whose stocks I would never recommend. In selecting investments, I attach prime importance to the men behind them. I'd rather buy brains and character than earnings. Earnings can be good one year and poor the next. But if you put your money into securities run by men combining conspicuous brains and unimpeachable character, the likelihood is that the financial results will prove satisfactory.

B. C. Forbes

Running, Character, Men

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If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Purpose, Littles, Ifs

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The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of personality itself. When we ask of a man, "What is he?" the answer is usually given in terms of his major role, job, or position in society; he is the place that he fills, a painter, a priest, a politician, a criminal.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Jobs, Men, Personality

KENNETH E. BOULDING (1953). “THE ORGANIZATIONAL REVOLUTION”

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I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.

Ellen Swallow Richards

Perseverance, Giving Up, Opportunity

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History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.

Mahathir Mohamad

Children, Lying, President

"Mahathir Criticises Bush, Blair". www.thestar.com.my. February 05, 2007.

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When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

Andrew Forrest

Country, Growing Up, Ministers

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Still sweet with blossoms is the year's fresh prime.

William C. Bryant

Sweet, Spring, Years

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The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Children, New Beginnings, Games

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... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

Julia Marlowe

Artist, Acting, Essentials

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Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

Jeremy Bernstein

Thinking, Television, Hopeless

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It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides.

Charles Dickens

Art, Real, Fate

Charles Dickens (2015). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 2 (of 2) (Illustrations)”, p.178, E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

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Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime
Put on his pistols and went riding out
But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time
Till he fell in with ladies in a rout.

John Crowe Ransom

Women, Rose, Riding

Donald Davidson, William Yandell Elliott, Merrill Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren (1928). “Fugitives: an anthology of verse”

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But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime
Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime;
An age that melts with unperceived decay,
And glides in modest Innocence away

Samuel Johnson

Age, Decay, Innocence

Samuel Johnson, Niall Rudd (1981). “Johnson's Juvenal: London and The Vanity of Human Wishes”, Bloomsbury Academic

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It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. Every Indian should now forget that he is a Rajput, a Sikh or a Jat. He must remember that he is an Indian and he has every right in this country but with certain duties.

Vallabhbhai Patel

Country, Responsibility, Citizens

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