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Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.


Robert Herrick

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I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.
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COLSON WHITEHEAD Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once...
DENISE HILDRETH JONES I would fain grow old learning many things.
PLATO Old hands can hold memories of good things.
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ITALO CALVINO Sometimes, sleepers turn up as common people who do everyday things, and create a new destiny for th...
DRAGOS BRATASANU And, each in his separate star, / Shall draw the Thing as he sees it for the God of things as they a...
RUDYARD KIPLING The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all the...
PATTI SMITH Funny how the new things are the old things.
RUDYARD KIPLING As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
ZACHARY SCOTT For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he...
STEPHEN KING If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
ARISTOTLE Only two things are universal, hair problems and human stupidity, but I have doubt about former, thu...
DR HITESH C SHETH Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whe...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and in the grand sweep of things, hi...
WILLIAM MCCUNE Once you grow old there is no hold.
J DAK I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!
RACHEL STEVENS People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
CHARLES F. KETTERING People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
CHARLES F. KETTERING Courage changes things for the better . . . [With courage you can] stay with something long enough t...
EARL NIGHTINGALE Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings a...
REBECCA HARDING DAVIS That's the thing with Robert, if you ask him to do something, he does it until he's good at it. We a...
CHAD CLUVER People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones.
CHARLES FRANKLIN KETTERING The one thing you always know about anything Robert does is that his heart and soul will totally be ...
TOM LEWAND Sometimes when a person does things to deliberately hurt you,
All you need to do is shift atlea...
NOMTHANDAZO TSEMBENI Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.
KAMI GARCIA I've said it many times, Kirk does so many things for our team that his shot-making is down the list...
SCOTT SKILES As we grow older, we realize, age sets limits to the things we can do
SOTONYE ANGA The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies.
JONATHAN SWIFT A man who has learnt little, grows old like an ox; his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow.
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Things are beginning to shift as we realize this isn't good for kids.
JUDITH STADTMAN TUCKER We're a work in progress and that's the reason you play in these type of tournaments, to learn how t...
CHAD ANDERSON People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
CHARLES KETTERING What is it about the sound of clapping hands? Why does it seem like an ocean of sound, breaking like...
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SAM DAVIS Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in ...
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L.M. MONTGOMERY Do things others can't be believe you did.
LORRIN L. LEE Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey...
EDDIE MURPHY Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as littl...
BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS If Roy wants his father back, that's fine with me. It's working fine. Big Roy has his job, and I hav...
ALTON MERKERSON When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, 'Duty', it was full of tou...
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RUSSELL JOHNSON Old things become new when slight modifications are done to them
SOTONYE ANGA I like to find old things
and I picked up that arrowhead
in tears, that broken point
...
LI HE I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Ca...
EDDIE MURPHY I grow old learning something new everyday.
SOLON Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPER Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPER Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One...
JOE SACCO This filly loves to train, and she does it with great enthusiasm; that's why she needs spacing in he...
JEFF BONDE The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
VICTOR HUGO Getting through it — when the good times in the day finally begin to outweigh the bad — takes thre...
KRISTEN SWANSON Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in...
BOB UECKER Old guys can still do fun things.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.
SHANNON ELIZABETH The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
HENRY WARD BEECHER That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make ...
JACKSON BROWNE Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.
FAMKE JANSSEN Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.
CORNELIA FUNKE Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
TACITUS I grow old learning something new every day.
SOLON The man who waits for things to turn up has his eyes fixed on his toes
CRESWELL MACLAUGHLIN Son, there are times a man has to do things he doesn't like to, in order to protect his family.
RALPH MOODY I like to discover new things.
OLIVIER MEGATON More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
JOHN SELDEN Life’s like that. As we grow and change, some things we’ve experienced before take on new meanin...
RICHELLE MEAD Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.
JAMES NORTHCOTE We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
MARCEL PROUST When you climb a fruitless tree, you go hungry!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH All living things must grow or they will die. Adaptation to change is a characteristic of all living...
ALVIN CONWAY We'll be moving things out of our old range to new range operations,
JACK WEINSTEIN Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our l...
RANDY K. MILHOLLAND Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.
DIMEBAG DARRELL I just told them to turn and then find the glass. We were too quick at times, rushing things. We'd j...
SARA SCHOPPER If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... Be sure to do all the things you want to do before you die ...because you could die in the next minu...
LORRIN L. LEE We tend to procrastinate on doing things we don't want to do and do things we want to do.
LORRIN L. LEE Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?
NICHOLAS SPARKS Allah causes the night and the day to succeed each other. Truly, in these things is indeed a lesson ...
ANONYMOUS Nothing can be said nowadays which has not already been said
TERENCE To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
JOHN H. PATTERSON God does not give big things instantly because every small thing grows.
SUNDAY ADELAJA When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift,
EVE ENSLER Many people consider the things which government does for them as social progress, but they consider...
EARL WARREN Time as he grows old teaches all things.
AESCHYLUS Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
AESCHYLUS It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA When you play with confidence, you turn the ball over fewer times, you don't make as many mistakes, ...
KARL TAIT I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.
RICK ALLEN I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.
RICK SAVAGE Hillary had never run for office before, but she decided to give it a try. She began her campaign th...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON You do not have to be a hurricane, to turn things around
LOESJE O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
ADA CAMBRIDGE The shift has been toward the former Soviet Union to Asian countries.
JASON GOULDEN As far as jeans and shirts, I rock a lot of different things.
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ROBERT KENNEDY Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
ROBERT KENNEDY The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking some...
ROBERT KENNEDY We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, wh...
ROBERT KENNEDY I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as t...
ROBERT KENNEDY From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way o...
ROBERT KENNEDY Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a ste...
ROBERT KENNEDY In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can di...
ROBERT KENNEDY We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic p...
ROBERT KENNEDY But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a...
ROBERT KENNEDY The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving th...
ROBERT KENNEDY The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental...
ROBERT KENNEDY People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I sha...
ROBERT KENNEDY The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever lan...
ROBERT KENNEDY No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ...
ROBERT KENNEDY One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
ROBERT KENNEDY Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
ROBERT HALF Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi...
ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl...
ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ...
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