Quotes with has-been

Quotes 4741 till 4760 of 5418.

  • Henry Louis Mencken Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Adolf Hitler Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • John Steinbeck Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Abdul Kalam Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Andrew Jackson Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Bradley A. Smith Unlike many in the conservative camp, I accept theories of global warming, and accept that man-made activity has played a part in global warming. My differences have only been on what the solutions should be.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Boris Johnson Unlike the current occupant of the White House, he has no difficulty in orally extemporising a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.
    Source: Telegraph Column, Oct 21, 2008, endorsing Barack Obama
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Noam Chomsky Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Nicholson Baker Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
    Nicholson Baker
    American novelist and essayist (1957 - )
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  • Anatole France Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • George Orwell Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Elvis Presley Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.
    Elvis Presley
    American singer, musician, and actor (1935 - 1977)
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  • George L. Jackson Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.
    Source: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1970)
    George L. Jackson
    African-American author and activist
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Burnie Burns Usually, YouTube channels are named after the person that you see on camera... or in the case of ours, it could have been the show, but we didn't even name the company 'Red vs. Blue.' We named it something else to give people the idea that we were going to be doing more than that.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Napoleon Vengeance has no foresight.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Billy Tauzin Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
    Source: Press conferentie, 21-04-1961 (na de Bay of Pigs)
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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