Quotes with has-been

Quotes 3541 till 3560 of 5418.

  • Michael Ondaatje Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.
    Source: The Cat's Table (2011) 25
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • John Newton So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.
    John Newton
     
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  • Bayard Taylor So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Brent Scowcroft So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Blair Underwood So it's a source of fun and a source of pride to have been a part of this little movie that could.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Mao Tse-Tung So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Barack Obama So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • A. B. Yehoshua So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Brene Brown Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • George Orwell Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Randolph Silliman Bourne Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
    Randolph Silliman Bourne
    American writer and intellectual (1886 - 1918)
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  • Barbara Park Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Peter Kline Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.
    Peter Kline
     
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  • Bill Gates Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' [...] Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Adam Schiff Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • James B. Conant Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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