Quotes with -they

Quotes 2121 till 2140 of 5636.

  • Blaise Pascal It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Dennis Potter It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read.
    Dennis Potter
    English playwright (1935 - 1994)
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  • Kingsley Amis It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Atom Egoyan It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • William Blake It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Seneca It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Anthony Collins It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.
    Anthony Collins
    English philosopher (1676 - 1729)
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
    The Economist (November 1955)
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Walter Bagehot It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Vance Havner It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Anatole Broyard It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Anatole France It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Calvin Coolidge It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Clive James It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Arthur Capper It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Abba Eban It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • B. Earl Puckett It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.
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  • C. L. R. James It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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