Quotes with destroyer—and

Quotes 16241 till 16260 of 25137.

  • Aldous Huxley Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Billy Graham Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Mark Twain Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bob Thaves Sure he [Fred Astaire] was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did,... backwards and in high heels.
    Bob Thaves
     
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  • John Gay Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Bobby Darin Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Alexander Pope Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William Shakespeare Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason, to fast in us unused.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ben Affleck Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Ben Bradlee Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.
    Ben Bradlee
    American journalist (1921 - 2014)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the principles of modern salesmanship on which business men so much pride themselves, are brilliantly exemplified in Jesus' talk and work.
    Source: The Man Nobody Knows (1924) Ch. 4 : His Method
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought...
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • George Gilder Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.
    George Gilder
     
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  • Bayard Rustin Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Caroline Knapp Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction is hard to counter.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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