Quotes with double-cross

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  • William Penn No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bill Bailey Not a very well-known fact, but on planes they always carry a trombone just in case there's a disaster and they need to keep morale up. All cabin crew - fully proficient in the trombone. And of course there's a double facility: if you ditch at sea, it can be used as a snorkel.
    Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Alfred de Vigny One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles III Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
    Charles III
    King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (1948 - )
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  • Bob Filner Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,
    And Thy pierced feet I clasp;
    Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;
    On me, with compassion fraught,
    Let Thy glances fall.
    Thy cross of agony,
    My Beloved, look on me;
    Turn me wholly unto Thee;
    Be thou whole, say openly:
    I forgive thee all.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • William Shakespeare Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Calista Flockhart Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Brett Hoebel Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.
    Brett Hoebel
    American personal trainer
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  • Sir William Osler Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Brad Delson The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Gene Brown The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
    Gene Brown
    American author and editor (1942 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Alan Patrick Herbert The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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  • Eli Cass The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble.
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