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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.


George Santayana

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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned
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BRANDON MARSHALL Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
IAN SCHRAGER Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process
SOTONYE ANGA The earth has its music for those who will listen
REGINALD VINCENT HOLMES Just an old-fashioned demonstration. How farming used to be.
KEVIN MOORE The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basicall...
J. G. BALLARD It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
OSCAR WILDE It is only the modern that ever becomes old fashioned.
OSCAR WILDE And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.
JAMES MACARTHUR People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards ...
BILL IRWIN It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
L.M. MONTGOMERY It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
L. M. MONTGOMERY Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists.
MOLLY IVINS Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external age...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an astronaut.
DREW VAN ACKER Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a...
GERMANY KENT I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop ...
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PEARL ZHU People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwa...
BILL IRWIN It will be like an old fashioned '50s carhop, with poodle skirts, burgers and the whole nine yards,
KATHY PARSONS An old-fashioned style is really big ? the gowns look like something their grandmother would have wo...
CARLY RAGER It was the most exciting music I'd ever heard, ... And 'Company' was the first album -- as in old-fa...
LONNY PRICE How wild it was, to let it be.
T. S. ELIOT We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old sy...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON And I knew that it was possible he wasn't entirely right for me, but I also knew, in some way...
CATHERINE LACEY Ever since I was 7 years old, I wanted to be great.
GLORIA TREVI To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
J. C. MACAULAY Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
J.C. MACAULAY To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU I happen to be of an almost extinct breed, an old-fashioned gentleman--which means I can be a real r...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget."
HUGH DOWNS No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. Whenever the secular arm is called in to susta...
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JOHNNY DEPP I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at...
JOHNNY DEPP If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is no...
DAVID BAILEY I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.
JACKIE JACKSON Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names...
GALILEO GALILEI The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basicall...
J. G. BALLARD He's an old-fashioned, traditional father and he is going to pay for everything he feels responsible...
DOUGLAS WHIPP My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think ...
BOB HOPE My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think ...
BOB HOPE If you ever want to tame your inner demons, you must consciously choose never to become too attached...
KAREN SALMANSOHN I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to...
WILKIE COLLINS It reminds me a lot of an old-fashioned festival.
BARBARA WILSON I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, lookin...
JOHNNY DEPP To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become i...
ALAN WATTS As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tra...
CHARLES DICKENS There will always be an opposing party or person to an idea no matter what it is.
ROBERT ADAMS To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN It's an old-fashioned love story. That's what it is, not a manufactured relationship story.
ROBIN WRIGHT PENN It will be like an old-fashioned radio show. Appalachia is a crossroads of music, especially African...
JEFF BIGGERS If we could have the ability to change the past and right our wrongs would it make us learn from any...
GARY F EVANS... To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i...
GARY F EVANS... The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...
JAMES THURBER People of different dispositions make the world go round. That's why it's insanity to try to be some...
UFUOMA APOKI I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.
SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.
AMIT KALANTRI I have the greatest role model that ever existed, ... She worked long before it was fashionable for ...
CAROL KAPLAN French's mustard is very soothing for your feet. You can make an old-fashioned plaster of it. It has...
JOEY GREEN It looks pretty. But it looks a little too much to me, but I could be too old-fashioned.
GENE TICE Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're ...
KATIE MCGARRY You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.
HAYDEN FRY Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three...
WILL SELF You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."

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SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.
ELIZABETH GEORGE In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
COCO CHANEL What is really beautiful must always be true.
STENDHAL A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.
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GERMANY KENT The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...
JAMES THURBER Your heart... it's a very fragile muscle. You have to take care of it, be old-fashioned about it...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
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JUDY GREER I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to ...
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SUSANNA CLARKE It sounds like they're going back to an old-fashioned model where they're calling upon people.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA America is a young country with an old mentality.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous i...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Consciousness is a born hermit.
GEORGE SANTAYANA My atheism, like that of GEORGE SANTAYANA Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it mus...
GEORGE SANTAYANA In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures...
GEORGE SANTAYANA To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it
GEORGE SANTAYANA Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA There is no dunce like a mature dunce
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