Quotes with foot-hold

Quotes 241 till 260 of 326.

  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Richard Rorty The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
    Richard Rorty
    American philosopher (1931 - 2007)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Jean Baudrillard There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Ari Fleischer There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest.
    Ari Fleischer
    American media consultant and political aide (1960 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mark Twain There it is: it doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment - anywhere.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bill Bailey There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.
    Source: Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Huey Newton There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
    Source: To Die for the People (2009)
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Philip Roth There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.
    Source: Everyman (2006)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Bar Refaeli These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
    Bar Refaeli
    Israeli model, actress, and entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Lorrie Moore They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Caroline Dhavernas They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can talk about things for years before they get done - god knows if the financing would happen.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Things which have most hold on us, as the concealment of our few possessions, are often a mere nothing. It is a nothing which our imagination magnifies into a mountain.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • George Bernard Shaw This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Will Rogers This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bob Graham This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Simone de Beauvoir To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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