Quotes with has-been

Quotes 2941 till 2960 of 5418.

  • Sydney Harris Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
    Sydney Harris
     
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  • Edgar W. Howe Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • John Andrew Holmes Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
    John Andrew Holmes
    American physician and writer (1874 - 1937)
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  • Dwight L. Moody Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
    Source: Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Carol Bellamy New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Billy Tauzin New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Carol Moseley Braun New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Howard Taft Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.
    William Howard Taft
    American politician, judge and President of the United States (1857 - 1930)
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  • Chris Evert Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.
    Chris Evert
    American tennis player (1954 - )
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  • Calvin Klein No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • George Orwell No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Gerard No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!
    Ralph Gerard
     
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  • Archibald Wavell No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
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  • Oscar Wilde No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William S. Burroughs No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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