Quotes with hero-like

Quotes 3321 till 3340 of 3793.

  • Umberto Eco We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.
    (2009)
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Arnold Toynbee We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
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  • Dora Russell We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold We have testimony saying, and I think common sense also dictates, that in a failed state like Syria, you don't have any government information, police reports to rely on to vet somebody. So there's no way to do a background check from somebody coming out of Syria. There's no way we can find out whether they're safe or not.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Anne Rice We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Brigitte Bardot We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Germaine Greer We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Bell Hooks We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Adam Sandler We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Bobby Sheehan We kinda like to pick you up and throw you on the ground. That's our thing.
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  • Mark Twain We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Blaise Pascal We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Blaise Pascal We like to be deceived.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Henry Block We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.
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  • Bob Taft We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • Aaron Sorkin We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
    A Few Good Men (1989) Act 2
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America - as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Jean Cocteau We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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