Quotes with back-end

Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 1547.

  • Aristotle The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Yoshida Kenko The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.
    Yoshida Kenko
    Japanese author and monk (1283 - 1350)
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  • Winston Churchill The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Calvin Coolidge The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Karl Kraus The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated - namely, the lavatory.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Emma Goldman The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Anderson Cooper The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
    Anderson Cooper
    American television journalist (1967 - )
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  • Joseph De Maistre The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Bow Wow The whole point of the game is not to stick with one thing, because when that one thing ends, then what are you going to do? For me, I have movies, '106 & Park,' music, and other things to fall back on.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • A. L. Kitselman The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
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  • Jean Paul The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • W. M. Thackeray The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Bill Hicks The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they sa
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bob Barr The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Samuel Butler The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Oliver Stone The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
    Oliver Stone
    American writer and filmmaker (1946 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • James Baldwin The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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