Quotes with destroyer—and

Quotes 19401 till 19420 of 25137.

  • Wendy Ward The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank.
    Wendy Ward
    professional golfer (1973 - )
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  • Martin Luther King The worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Herodotus The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Bill Gates The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.
    Source: Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Bethany McLean The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Billy Baldwin The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.
    Billy Baldwin
    American actor and writer
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  • Aneurin Bevan The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Hillary Clinton The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
    Hillary Clinton
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ben Okri The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Milan Kundera The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bell Hooks The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Bill Gates The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Carson McCullers The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Sydney Smith The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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