Quotes with common-place

Quotes 61 till 80 of 1131.

  • Arthur Bloch A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.
    Arthur Bloch
    American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books (1948 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Henry Waldorf Francis A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
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  • James Duffecy A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.
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  • Ben Nelson A democratic and stable Iraq and Afghanistan are essential to our broader efforts to make no place safe for terrorists and to win the War on Terrorism.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Luigi Pirandello A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Buddha A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Charles Swindoll A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
    Charles Swindoll
    American Pastor, writer
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  • Bill Bryson A friend Alan and I ended up in an Outback pub in a place called Daly Waters and apparently, he says, in the course of this very lively evening we spent there I offered to do a house swap with a family from Korea. We weren't sure whether they were from North Korea or South Korea.
    Interview with Stanfords Newsletter (June 2001)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Samuel Butler A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ann Plato A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
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  • Samuel Goldwyn A Hospital is no place to be sick.
    Samuel Goldwyn
    American producer (1882 - 1974)
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  • Joel A. Barker A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.
    Joel A. Barker
    American businessman
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  • Bainbridge Colby A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Norman Cousins A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Ariel Sharon A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.
    Ariel Sharon
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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  • Herbert Spencer A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Butch Trucks A lot of the cities where we have a strong following, we don't even get to every year anymore. But Stony Brook was a place that, from the very first time we went, the chemistry was right. They loved us, and we loved them, and we just kept going back and going back.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bill Viola A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Beryl Markham A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.
    Beryl Markham
    English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author (1902 - 1986)
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