Quotes with dead-letter

Quotes 241 till 260 of 426.

  • 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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  • 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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  • Robin Williams People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
    Rolling Stone Interview, 1988
    Robin Williams
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1951 - 2014)
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  • Aristotle Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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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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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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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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  • 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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  • Billie Joe Armstrong Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Ian McEwan Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • John Galsworthy Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Oscar Wilde Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • W. C. Fields Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Miguel de Unamuno Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • Edgar Quinet Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • B. F. Harris Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
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