Quotes with destroyer—and

Quotes 5481 till 5500 of 25137.

  • Aldous Huxley For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alice Walker For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Epictetus For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Miguel de Unamuno For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • Charles II For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.
    Charles II
     
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  • Richard Nixon For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • T. S. Eliot For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Sir Thomas Malory For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.
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  • Virginia Woolf For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • John Updike For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Thomas Carlyle For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ernest Becker For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.
    Ernest Becker
     
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  • Paul Goodman For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Henry David Thoreau For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bill McCartney For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.
    Bill McCartney
    American football player and coach (1940 - )
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  • Anthony Doerr For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Beah Richards For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
    Beah Richards
    American actress (1920 - 2000)
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  • Beth Ditto For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Al Goldstein For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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