Quotes with has-been

Quotes 4701 till 4720 of 5418.

  • Arundhati Roy Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Guy Debord Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Bob Ross Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Abba Eban Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Ben Foster Transcendental Meditation, for me, has been a way of turning down the outside racket and turning up the bandwidth of instinct, intuition, concentration, attention. On the light ends, it's a power nap. On the strong ends, it's a giant battery, and that battery doesn't run out.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Vita Sackville-West Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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  • Og Mandino Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Trejo is one of the oldest boxing gyms in Cuba; it's outdoor, and every great champion the country has produced has passed through and was forged in the open air.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Ben Parr Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Milan Kundera True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Larry Mcmurtry True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends - and he accepts it.
    Larry Mcmurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • Robert Smith True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.
    Robert Smith
     
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  • Bayard Taylor True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Cass Sunstein Trump is more performance artist than zealot. But he's finding enemies everywhere, whether they are judges of Mexican ancestry, parents of those killed in war, the current president, or children of immigrants. Whether or not he has a sense of decency, he is in grave danger of losing it.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Virgil Trust one who has tried.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Antonio Porchia Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Leo Rosten Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Robert South Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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