Quotes with four-and-a-half

Quotes 6701 till 6720 of 25414.

  • Lord Chesterfield Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Bill Flores House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Philo of Alexandria Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
    Philo of Alexandria
    Greek Jewish philosopher (20 - 50)
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  • Francis Bacon Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • John Burroughs How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • William James How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Lee Trevino How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
    Lee Trevino
    American golfer (1939 - )
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  • Chief Seattle How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Charles de Gaulle How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • John Milton How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute, and a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Al Gore How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Emily Brontë How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Alexander Smith How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Jim Valvano How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it.
    Jim Valvano
    American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster (1946 - 1993)
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  • Fran Lebowitz How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bill Hybels How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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