Quotes with hand-me-down

Quotes 581 till 600 of 1186.

  • Dorothy Parker Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Franklin Love thy neighbor - but don't pull down your hedge.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
    - +
     0
  • Anatole France Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
    - +
     0
  • Maxwell Maltz Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Watson Make sure you know your identity is in Christ, so that when you get laid off from your job, or when you get a raise from your job, or when things don't go right, you're not up and down, up and down.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bernard M. Baruch Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
    - +
     0
  • Clare Boothe Luce Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
    - +
     0
  • Samuel Smiles Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
    - +
     0
  • Meister Eckhart Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
    - +
     0
  • H.G. Wells Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
    - +
     0
  • Thomas De Quincey Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
    - +
     0
  • John Kenneth Galbraith Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
    - +
     0
  • Bono Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Shuster Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Cass Sunstein Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bell Hooks Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin E. Mays Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
    - +
     0
  • H. Jackson Brown Jr Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
    - +
     0
  • Helen Rowland Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • P. J. O'Rourke Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about ''character issues.'' Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
    - +
     0
All hand-me-down famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 30)