Quotes with back-end

Quotes 1301 till 1320 of 1547.

  • Ronald Reagan To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Milan Kundera To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Henry James To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Angela Merkel Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • H. P. Lovecraft Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • Vance Havner Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Salman Rushdie Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
    The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2000) 38
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Igor Stravinsky Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Touring we thought was a waste of time. It was much more productive and much more creative to write and record. I am glad today that we didn't tour. We knew it begins and ends with a song. Back then the entire business revolved around the song.
    Daily Telegraph, 5 Jul 2008
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Arthur Keith Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Billy Beane Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Blake Schwarzenbach Turtle on its back in the desert sea / and you look like a cool drink / just slightly out of reach / Draw myself into the shell / waiting on a sign from God / or a nod from hell
    Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998) Sea Anemone
    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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  • Byron Howard Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook, it's so amazing because years ago, when I was growing up and watching movies, there was no way for us to interact with filmmakers at all. You could send a letter, and you'd never know if you were going to hear back or not.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Betty Shabazz Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track.
    Betty Shabazz
    American educator and civil rights advocate (1934 - 1997)
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  • Bobby Fischer Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Graham Greene Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Andrew Jackson Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Anita Diamant Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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