Quotes with foot-hold

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  • Alfred Marshall Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.
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  • Buddha Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Maggie Kuhn Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
    Maggie Kuhn
    American activist (1905 - 1995)
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  • Caleb Cushing Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Barbara Jordan More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Benjamin Watson Most of the guys in the NFL would sit here and tell you we don't condone the abuse of a child, any sort of abuse of a woman, breaking rules, failing drug tests, or doing any of those things. We hold ourselves to a very high standard.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Caroll Spinney Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • H. Ross Perot Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Billy Wilder My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • J. K. Rowling Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
    J. K. Rowling
    British novelist, screenwriter, and producer (1965 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius.
    Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
    French naturalist and mathematician
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  • Robert Burton No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
    Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy Part III, sect 2,1,2
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Buenaventura Durruti No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
    Source: Van Paassen interview (1936)
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Napoleon Hill No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Harry Houdini No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Archibald Alexander None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Blair Underwood Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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