Quotes with hero-like

Quotes 2961 till 2980 of 3793.

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bianca Lawson The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God.' Because when you're watching things on TV, you think it's like a fantasy. But then to actually do it and then see yourself, it's like 'Oh my God.'
    Bianca Lawson
    American actress (1979 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Buddha The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • B. B. King The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Casey Affleck The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Bette Davis The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Joseph Conrad The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Charles III The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
    Charles III
    King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (1948 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Blake Bailey The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.
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  • Harold Macmillan The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Barbara Mikulski The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Hortense Calisher The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
    Hortense Calisher
    American writer (1911 - 2009)
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  • Edward Blishen The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.
    Edward Blishen
    English author and broadcaster (1920 - 1996)
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  • Basil O'Connor The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
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  • Samuel Johnson The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Hicks The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they sa
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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