Quotes with foot-hold

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  • Thomas Jefferson We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Orison Swett Marden We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.
    Orison Swett Marden
    American inspirational author (1848 - 1924)
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  • Vernon Howard We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
    Vernon Howard
    Swiss actor (1918 - 1992)
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  • Martin Luther King We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ansel Adams We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Calista Flockhart Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ben Shapiro What sort of job can you hold in America in which it is safe to hold the personal conviction that same-sex marriage is wrong? The answer: there is no such job. Except Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. Then you're fine.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Michelangelo What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Robert Graves What we now call ''finance'' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
    Robert Graves
    English poet, historical novelist, critic and classicist (1895 - 1985)
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  • Robert Browning What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Samuel Johnson When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Marc Chagall When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.
    Marc Chagall
    Russian-French artist and painter (1887 - 1985)
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  • John Lennon When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Bitsie Tulloch When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a civil engineer. No joke. I would come home from school and build bridges out of toothpicks and see how much weight they would hold before falling.
    Bitsie Tulloch
    American actress
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  • Brandon Sanderson When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • Carol Roth When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.
    Carol Roth
    American television personality and author (1973 - )
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  • Berthold Auerbach When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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