Quotes with buy-out

Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 2800.

  • Samuel Johnson The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Donna Tartt The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
    Donna Tartt
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Carolyn Wells The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Leo Tolstoy The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • James Russell Lowell The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Thucydides The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
    Thucydides
    Athenian historian and general (460 - 400)
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  • Ben Kingsley The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard The car as we know it is on the way out.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Gail Godwin The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.
    Gail Godwin
    American novelist and short story writer (1937 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yet absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows.... His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has not mind, he has simple being.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Buffalo Bill The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Cyril Connolly The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Colin Wilson The complex develops out of the simple.
    Colin Wilson
    British writer (1931 - 2013)
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  • Barry White The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bob Corker The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.
    Bob Corker
    American businessman and politician (1952 - )
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