Quotes with heavier-than-air

Quotes 1621 till 1640 of 4330.

  • George Macdonald In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • André Gide In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur In Iceland, the weather is the biggest character you deal with every day. There's nothing more relevant in your life than what kind of weather it is.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Bipasha Basu In India, we kind of concentrate only on weight loss. I want to teach people that it is very important to be strong and fit, rather than just thin.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Carlo Rubbia In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Bruce Lee In Jeet Kune Do, it's not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. 'Being' is more valued than doing.
    The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Alan Watts In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Boris Pasternak In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Alexander Smith In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Stendhal In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Walter Lippmann In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Alexis Carrel In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Caitlin Flanagan In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Thomas De Quincey In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
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  • Bethenny Frankel In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.
    Bethenny Frankel
    American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1970 - )
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  • Bill Dedman In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Andrew Cohen In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Bono In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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