Quotes with destroyer—and

Quotes 18481 till 18500 of 25137.

  • Bryan Cogman The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • John Lennon The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Adam Sedgwick The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
    Adam Sedgwick
     
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  • Havelock Ellis The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Alfred Marshall The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
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  • Vince Lombardi The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Middleton The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Max Percy The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
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  • Iris Murdoch The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Nadine Gordimer The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Marquis de Sade The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Anthony Holden The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • John Ruskin The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Jeremy Bentham The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • Noam Chomsky The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Bill Moyers The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Henry Miller The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Walter Lippmann The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • A. J. Muste The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
    A. J. Muste
    Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist
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