Quotes with back-end

Quotes 1521 till 1540 of 1547.

  • Brenda Song Your body is like a machine, and if you don't keep it in shape, it holds you back. You don't want anything holding you back, especially yourself.
    Brenda Song
    American actress (1988 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bayard Rustin [Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Barbara Ward [The Western Colonial system] shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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  • Adam Smith “If, as has already been observed, I see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall upon the leg, or arm, of another person, I naturally shrink and draw back my own leg, or my own arm: and when it does fall, I feel it in some measure, and am hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
    Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part II (1759)
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Omar Khayyam 'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Iris Murdoch Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Thomas Fuller Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Armstrong Williams For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • George Eliot For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Boethius From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend —
    Path, motive, guide, original and end.
    Source: De Consolatione Philosophia Book III, section 9, line 27
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
    Source: The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ad Reinhardt I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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  • Blair Underwood In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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