Quotes with back-end

Quotes 1321 till 1340 of 1547.

  • Bernard Malamud Usually when he forgot words he would wait for them to seep back into consciousness like fish drawn up to the hungry surface of a stream. He would remember the initial letter of the forgotten word or sense sounds in it; soon the word reappeared in an illumination.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Publilius Syrus Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Bobby Fischer Wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.
    Radio Interview, October 16 2006 [31]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Karl Kraus War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Woody Guthrie Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.
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  • Bubba Smith We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • Anne Dudley We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Buenaventura Durruti We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Desmond Morris We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.
    Desmond Morris
    British zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter (1928 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lee Iacocca We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Bret Harte We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • John F. Kennedy We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bev Perdue We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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