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Quotes 281 till 300 of 503.

  • Barbara Park My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Johnny Carson My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
    Johnny Carson
    American TV personality, businessman (1925 - 2005)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • John Ruskin Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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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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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • George Sand No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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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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  • Edgar Sheffield Brightman No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
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  • Oscar Wilde Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bobby Heenan North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?
    Bobby Heenan
    American professional wrestler (1944 - 2017)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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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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  • Anthony de Mello Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Bill Rancic Obviously, many people may remember me as the first winner of 'The Apprentice,' but prior to that, I was an entrepreneur. I started my first business when I was in college, and then getting my lucky break was when Donald Trump hired me on.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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