Quotes with have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves

Quotes 8161 till 8180 of 20393.

  • Henry Ward Beecher In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Oscar Wilde In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Moyers In those days, affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.
    Help, speech to the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, 3 March 2007, Moyers on Democracy
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Hitopadesa In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Paul Harvey In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
    Paul Harvey
    American radio broadcaster (1918 - 2009)
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  • Beth Behrs In today's world, most people are working side jobs while waiting to do what they really want to do.
    Beth Behrs
    American actress and writer (1985 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Alice Munro In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Doris Lessing In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Boris Pasternak In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Cal Thomas In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Brendan Dooling In voiceover, you have to restrain yourself when you're acting in the sound booth in front of the microphone. If you lean left or you lean right, you're going to lose the voice. Yet you yourself become animated when you're doing the part. So you'll see a lot of flailing arms, but a very still face.
    Brendan Dooling
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Winston Churchill In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Simon Hoggart In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
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  • Alexander Pope In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Carol Bellamy In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • C. L. R. James In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Catherine Drinker Bowen In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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