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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.
Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.
Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.
Third-generation Indians love maintaining their cultural traditions, but they can also go down the pub, shop till they drop, do whatever anyone else does.
It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.
Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it runs clear.
You're only as old as you feel, and I feel pretty young. I've got one gear, and till it gets reversed, I'm going all out.
It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.
To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!
Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
During the initial two years in Mumbai, it was lonely and awkward for me, till I made some friends in South Mumbai.
Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.
Till now I have mostly done the glam roles. But I do look forward to work for films which will give me more scope to perform as an actor.
I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.
I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.
How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!
The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.
Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.
An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.
I never thought I'd die young. Even at the worst moments, I've always thought I was gonna live till I was about 127.
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it
Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.
Roses at first were white, Till thy co'd not agree, Whether my Sapho's breast, Or they more white sho'd be.
So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.
At the end of the day, my job is to play cricket, and till the time I am playing against any opposition, I am happy.
Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.
People are innocent till proven otherwise. All people are.
A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.
I can't wait to showcase all my years of hard work to the Americans and have all my fans with me, my family and people who've just been there for no other reason than to support Darren Till.
If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.
Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.
A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.
Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.
One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die.
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense,
The surest guard is innocence:
None knew, till guilt created fear,
What darts or poisoned arrows were
Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
Even I would be unhappy if the final track did not sound good to me, which is why I stay in the loop with the music team till the song is ready.
Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.
Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.
To be honest, I hadn't realised the greatness of film music till I was exposed to film songs after I started living in Mumbai.
I’ve had reports of this one being in the city, but no close-up pictures till now. He’s some kind of pretty. I could just take a bite out of that firm—
The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians came. Everything falls someday
I'm not very funny in real life. I used to want to be a comedian when I was 13, 14, 15, till I saw "Death Of A Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock.
Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.
... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been
In this dim world of clouding cares,
We rarely know, till wildered eyes
See white wings lessening up the skies,
The angels with us unawares.
I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.
I think a well-fit T-shirt and jeans can just kill, style-wise. At least, that's what I tell myself, because that's what I'm going to keep wearing till I die.
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
The first time I fell in love, I was in my 20s, and I loved someone right till I was 31. And then I felt that emotion died within me. I wasn't feeling alive at all.
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.
