Quotes with good-breeding

Quotes 2101 till 2120 of 2790.

  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • George Orwell The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Walter Benjamin The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Umberto Eco The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Bertrand Russell The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • William Blake The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Edward F. Halifax The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Napoleon Hill The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Barton Seaver The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.
    Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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  • Billy Campbell The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Berry Wendell The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
    Berry Wendell
    American novelist, poet and environmental activist (1934 - )
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  • Blake Anderson The lead singer for Deerhunter, Bradford Cox... I don't like saying people are geniuses or whatever, but I just think that dude is so good at every single thing he does. He stays within his genre, but I think he does so well experimenting with stuff.
    Blake Anderson
    American actor, comedian and producer (1984 - )
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  • Benito Mussolini The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Oscar Wilde The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Santayana The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Machiavelli The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Mark Twain The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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