Quotes with down-on-his-luck

Quotes 1961 till 1980 of 3899.

  • Al Stewart Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
    Al Stewart
    Scottish singer-songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Stephen Leacock Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Oprah Winfrey Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Bob Ney Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Barry Cornwall Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Joyce Brothers Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
    Joyce Brothers
    American psychologist and columnist (1927 - 2013)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Camille Paglia Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Al Goldstein Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Joan Crawford Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
    Joan Crawford
    American basketball player (1904 - 1977)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Victor Frankel Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
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  • Aleister Crowley Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Love thy neighbor - but don't pull down your hedge.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Confucius Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Anatole France Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Ovid Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Michael Korda Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to ''make'' your luck by being always prepared.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Aaron Allston Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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