Quotes with back-bite

Quotes 621 till 640 of 840.

  • Bruce Springsteen The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Carlo Ratti The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can 'see' a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye - are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Bethany Mota The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • Michael Jordan The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
    Michael Jordan
    American basketball player and businessman (1984 - )
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  • Albert Camus The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Robert Alan The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.
    Robert Alan
    American singer/songwriter and comic book creator (1971 - )
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  • Bob Hope The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Blair Underwood The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Anna Howard Shaw The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Baba Kalyani The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bob Barr The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Ajay Naidu The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • James Fenton The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
    James Fenton
    English poet, journalist and literary (1949 - )
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  • William Cowper The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Sam Snead The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
    Sam Snead
    American professional golfer (1912 - 2002)
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