Quotes with heavier-than-air

Quotes 3701 till 3720 of 4330.

  • Alcaeus of Mytilene To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
    Alcaeus of Mytilene
    Ancient Greek poet
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  • Anatoly Karpov To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
    Anatoly Karpov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1951 - 1951)
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  • George Santayana To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Golda Meir To be successful, a woman has to be better at her job than a man.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Hannah Arendt To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Virginia Woolf To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Huey Newton To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.
    To Die for the People (1972)
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Heraclitus To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Philip Massinger To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
    Philip Massinger
    English dramatist (1583 - 1640)
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  • W. M. Thackeray To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • John Locke To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • William Penn To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Matthew Prior To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • René Descartes To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Barry Ritholtz To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bruce Catton To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Paul Auster To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
    Timbuktu (2010) 59
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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