Quotes with down-on-his-luck

Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 3899.

  • Lord Thomas Dewar Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
    Lord Thomas Dewar
    Scottish businessman (1864 - 1930)
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  • Heywood Broun Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Ayn Rand Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Andrew Grove Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • Bruce Lee Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Bobby Darin Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Bill Bryson Just down the road stood a little town, which I shall call Dullard lest the people recognize themselves and take me to court or come to my house and batter me with baseball bats.
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Rebecca West Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Daniel Defoe Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Brigham Young Kanosh the Pauvantee Chief with Several of his band visted me gave them some council & presints. A Spirit Seems to be takeing possesion of the Indians to assist Isreal. I can hardly restrain them from exterminating the Americans
    Mountain Meadows massacre Diary of Brigham Young 1857, p. 71 (September 1, 1
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Charles F. Kettering Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Quentin Crisp Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Benedict Wong Khan let Polo be his eyes and ears. He was the first one to build a bridge between East and West.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Barbara Demick Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • C. Wright Mills Kindness and friendliness become aspects of personalized service or of public relations of big firms, rationalized to further the sale of something. With anonymous insincerity, the Successful Person thus makes an instrument of his own appearance and personality.
    White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bill Condon Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Kircher lays it down as a certain principle, that there never was any people so rude which did not acknowledge and worship one supreme Deity.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • André Gide Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Beth Behrs Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.
    Beth Behrs
    American actress and writer (1985 - )
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  • Swami Brahmananda Knowing that his past actions may try to overwhelm him, the devotee must be prepared to combat them. God will give him the strength: His Name will be an impenetrable armor. It will save him from all the consequences.
    Swami Brahmananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher
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