Quotes with dead-end

Quotes 921 till 940 of 1106.

  • Beth Simone Noveck To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • Arnold Bennett To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Voltaire To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Henry James To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • H. P. Lovecraft Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Vance Havner Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Salman Rushdie Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
    The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2000) 38
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Igor Stravinsky Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes - our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Arthur Keith Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Bob Beauprez True enough, Osama bin Laden is dead and other al-Qaeda leaders have joined him. But, the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi is a brutal reminder that radical Islamic terror groups have not disappeared and certainly are not dormant.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mark Twain Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • William Saroyan Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Billy Beane Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Graham Greene Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Andrew Jackson Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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