Quotes with back-end

Quotes 381 till 400 of 1547.

  • Francis Bacon He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Dhammapada He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Barry Ritholtz Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety of things beyond mere outperformance.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • A. A. Milne Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Cristopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.
    Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Ch. 1, opening lines
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • William Shakespeare Here is my journey's end, here is my butt; And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bobby Jindal Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • John A. Hannah Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
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  • Bradley Chicho Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.
    Bradley Chicho
    English poet
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  • Joan Lunden Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
    Joan Lunden
     
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  • Oswald Chambers Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Camilla Belle Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bill Flores House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • William James How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Lee Trevino How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
    Lee Trevino
    American golfer (1939 - )
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