Quotes with courtier-like

Quotes 2881 till 2900 of 3710.

  • Bob Schieffer The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Brooke Burke The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Barry Eisler The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • F. L. Lucan The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization.
    F. L. Lucan
    Roman epic poet (39 - 65)
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  • Eugene J. Mccarthy The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.
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  • Cass Sunstein The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Octave Mirbeau The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
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  • Carl Sagan The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Peter de Vries The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. Bit the combination is locked up in the safe.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bianca Lawson The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God.' Because when you're watching things on TV, you think it's like a fantasy. But then to actually do it and then see yourself, it's like 'Oh my God.'
    Bianca Lawson
    American actress (1979 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Buddha The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • B. B. King The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Casey Affleck The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Bette Davis The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Joseph Conrad The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Charles III The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
    Charles III
    King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (1948 - )
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