Quotes with down-on-his-luck

Quotes 3701 till 3720 of 3899.

  • Arne Jacobsen With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • John Madden With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.
    John Madden
    American Football broadcaster and coach (1936 - )
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  • Burt Rutan With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ezra Pound With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Barbara Boxer With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Anthony Storr With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
    Anthony Storr
    English psychiatrist and author
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  • Buffalo Bill With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (2009 edition), Arc Manor LLC
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Candice Millard With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Federico Garcia Lorca With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
    Federico Garcia Lorca
    Spanish poet and playwright (1898 - 1936)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Camille Paglia Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Sir Edwin Arnold Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
    Sir Edwin Arnold
    English poet and journalist (1832 - 1904)
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  • Homer Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Anzia Yezierska Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut - a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Francis Bacon Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • George Gurdjieff Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • B. C. Forbes Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success – for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Sigmund Freud Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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