Quotes with down-on-his-luck

Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 3899.

  • Anne Frank Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: ''What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Is Duran's 'No Mas' a more defining moment in his career than his victory over Sugar Ray Leonard in their first fight? For many, it is.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Aldo Leopold Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • Russell Baker Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
    Russell Baker
    American journalist (1925 - )
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  • Charles A. Lindbergh Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
    Charles A. Lindbergh
    American aviator and inventor
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Wheeler Shaw It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
    Henry Wheeler Shaw
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • John Keats It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Thomas Jefferson It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bob Costas It brings to mind a story Mickey liked to tell on himself. He pictured himself at the pearly gates, met by St. Peter, who shook his head and said, 'Mick, we checked the record. We know some of what went on. Sorry, we can't let you in, but before you go, God wants to know if you'd sign these six dozen baseballs.
    Eulogy for Mickey Mantle, Dallas, Tex., 15 August 1995
    Bob Costas
    American sportscaster (1952 - )
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  • Winston Churchill It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Campbell Brown It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Diane Arbus It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, ''All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.'' And they did.
    Diane Arbus
    American photographer (1923 - 1971)
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  • Havelock Ellis It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Napoleon Hill It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • A. Benson Cannon It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.
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  • Baltasar Gracián It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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