Quotes with heavier-than-air

Quotes 3801 till 3820 of 4330.

  • Bernard M. Baruch Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • John B. S. Haldane Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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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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  • W. Secker Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.
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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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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Jonathan Swift Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Jean Paul Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Jean Paul Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Bill Kristol Very few wars in American history were prepared better or more throughly than this one by this president.
    March 1, 2003
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Albert Bandura Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
    Albert Bandura
    Canadian-American psychologist (1925 - )
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  • Antoine Rivarol Vices are often habits rather than passions.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Adam Smith Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Bill Hybels Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • James Baldwin Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Nathaniel P. Willis Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
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  • Mark Twain Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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