Quotes with birth--except

Quotes 421 till 440 of 461.

  • Lionel Trilling We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Ann Coulter We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Daniel Defoe Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Bernard Barton Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.
    Bernard Barton
    English Quaker poet (1784 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bill Dedman Wellesley's president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, approved a broad rule with a specific application: The senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available in the college archives for anyone to read - except for those written by either a 'president or first lady of the United States.'
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Robert Frost What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Evelyn Waugh What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Ben Shapiro What sort of job can you hold in America in which it is safe to hold the personal conviction that same-sex marriage is wrong? The answer: there is no such job. Except Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. Then you're fine.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its teachers. All instruction and all truth, except simple mathematical truth, is modified by the medium through which it is conveyed.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Oscar Wilde When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bobby McFerrin When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Aeschylus Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Mark Twain Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ovid Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Al Gore Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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