Quotes with down-on-his-luck

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  • Buck Owens But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • George Eliot But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bill Griffith But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Audre Lorde But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Black Kettle But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • Virginia Woolf But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world - a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Buddy Rich But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Immanuel Kant By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Blaise Pascal By knowing each man's ruling passion, we are sure of pleasing him; and yet each has his fancies, opposed to his true good, in the very idea which he has of the good.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Carol Loomis By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews - and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Robert S. Hillyer By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
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  • Ashley Montagu By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Solomon Schechter By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
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  • Henry Vaughan Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Thomas De Quincey Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
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  • Helen Rowland Call the bald man, ''Boy;'' make the sage thy toy; greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man for his grace.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • George Herbert Calmness is great advantage; he that lets another chafe, may warm him at his fire.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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