Quotes with built-in

Quotes 81 till 100 of 118.

  • Anna Lindh The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Edward Vernon Rickenbacker The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.
    Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
    American fighter pilot in WW I (1890 - 1973)
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  • Anna Quindlen The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Mark Twain The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Baba Kalyani The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Anselm Kiefer The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
    Anselm Kiefer
    German painter and sculptor (1945 - )
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  • Arthur Middleton The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Enid Bagnold The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
    Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • C. V. Raman The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
    C. V. Raman
    Indian physicist (1888 - 1970)
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  • Jean Rostand There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Anna Louise Strong They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Karl Kraus This is something that I cannot get over - that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Brooks Atkinson This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Jean Rostand To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Emily Post To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
    Emily Post
    American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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  • Lenny Bruce Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an ''act'' and he told the audience, ''This is my act.'' Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Barbara Smith Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
    Barbara Smith
    American lesbian feminist and socialist (1946 - )
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  • Cameron Mackintosh Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
    Cameron Mackintosh
    British theatrical producer and theatre owner (1946 - )
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