Quotes with birth--except

Quotes 301 till 320 of 461.

  • Jean Cocteau Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • W. C. Fields Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Ben Stein So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Edward de Bono Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
    Edward de Bono
    Maltese physician, psychologist, philosopher, author and inventor (1933 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Anna Pavlova Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
    Anna Pavlova
    Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
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  • John W. Draper Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • John Donne Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Frederick the Great Talents go by nature not by birth.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Cullen Hightower Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
    Cullen Hightower
    American quotation and quip writer (1923 - 2008)
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  • Amelia Barr That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Sigmund Freud The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Calvin Trillin The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill The battle is all over except the ''shouting'' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Giordano Bruno The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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  • Brendan Myers The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley The brainwashing which has been going on for 150 years has also resulted in the replacement of intellectual activities and religion by ideologies and science....I have nothing against Marx, except that his theories do not explain what happened.
    Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
    Source: The Devil's Disciple (1901)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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