Quotes with 1-foot

Quotes 21 till 40 of 44.

  • Maggie Kuhn Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
    Maggie Kuhn
    American activist (1905 - 1995)
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  • H. Ross Perot Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Napoleon Hill No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Archibald Alexander None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Horace Walpole Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Horace Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Marcel Proust People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Bobby Bragan Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • Carl Honore Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.
    Describing a Mexican baroque church
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Albert Camus The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • John Dryden The poetry of the foot.
    The Rival Ladies (1664) 3, 1
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ari Fleischer There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest.
    Ari Fleischer
    American media consultant and political aide (1960 - )
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  • Mikhail Bakunin To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Michelangelo What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Brandon Sanderson When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • Berthold Auerbach When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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