Quotes with destroyer—and

Quotes 17781 till 17800 of 25137.

  • Lord Chesterfield The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Mary McCarthy The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Arthur Scargill The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Bill Flores The lack of portability and competition has long been a problem in America's insurance market, yet Obamacare took no significant steps to open up the market between state lines.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Carlos Fuentes The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Lord George Byron The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Alain de Botton The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Buck Owens The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Blaise Pascal The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • William Faulkner The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Rita Mae Brown The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Bun E. Carlos The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital emergency room.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Austrian-American actor, politican, businessman and investor (1947 - )
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  • Bill Clinton The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says.
    Source: Campaign speech given in California
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Barbara Lee The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • C. L. R. James The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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