Quotes with back-end

Quotes 761 till 780 of 1547.

  • Virginia Woolf Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Jean Paul Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Carlos Fuentes Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • John Dryden Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Bjork Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Ben Horowitz Look - this is the terror of being a founder & CEO. It is all your fault. Every decision, every person you hire, every dumb thing you buy or do - ultimately, you're at the end.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Anita Roddick Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Look back, and smile at perils past.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Anna Quindlen Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Carl Sandburg Look out how you use proud words.
    When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.
    They wear long boots, hard boots.
    Source: Primer Lessons (1922)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Edward Everett Hale Look up, and not down; Out and not in; Forward and not back; And lend a hand.
    Edward Everett Hale
    American author, historian, and Unitarian minister (0 - 1909)
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  • Alan Greenspan Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Albert Claude Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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