Quotes with dead-ends

Quotes 281 till 300 of 516.

  • Andrea Dworkin Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Sinclair Lewis Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • George Eliot Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • John Lennon Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Barbara Demick Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • George Santayana Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Bill Engvall People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Adam Smith People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Robin Williams People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
    Source: Rolling Stone Interview, 1988
    Robin Williams
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1951 - 2014)
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  • Alice James Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Mark Twain Pity is for living, envy is for dead.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Todd Andrew Reid Plato had slaves...George Washington had slaves...So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead!
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  • George Eliot Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Robert Frost Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Camille Paglia Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bitsie Tulloch Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.
    Bitsie Tulloch
    American actress
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  • Hannah Arendt Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Harold Macmillan Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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