Quotes with blocks

  • To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a rasor.
  • Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, ''I can do no other.''

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  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    American suffragist, abolitionist and women's rights activist (1815 - 1902)
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  • Erich Fromm The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • George Eliot But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bob Ehrlich Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • Heywood Broun Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, ''I can do no other.''
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu I'm the prime minister who removed 400 checkpoints, barriers, road-blocks and so on to facilitate the growth of the Palestinian economy.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Bob Schaffer In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Cate Campbell Injuries aren't anything foreign to me. I am used to overcoming illness and injury; you can't complain about it. When you're standing up there on the blocks, it doesn't really matter: it's all about the next minute.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Ben Carson Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Stephen King The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Camille Paglia The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Alexander Pope To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alexander Pope To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a rasor.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Billy Collins When I discovered the lyric poem, that advanced not by narrative steps but by blocks and layers of imagery, I said, 'Gee, I probably could do that. So let me try that.'
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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