Quotes with hero-like

Quotes 861 till 880 of 3793.

  • Bob Brown Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • John Webster Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, but looking to near, have neither heat not light.
    John Webster
    English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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  • William Shakespeare Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Antonio Porchia God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Albert Camus God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • C. S. Lewis God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
    The Problem of Pain (1940)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Zora Neale Hurston Gods always behave like the people who make them.
    Zora Neale Hurston
    American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad Going home must be like going to render an account.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Hannah More Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Jean Paul Getty Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Francis Bacon Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Arthur Christiansen Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
    Arthur Christiansen
    British journalist, and editor (1904 - 1963)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Lord Jeffrey Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
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  • Alberto Moravia Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
    Alberto Moravia
    Italian writer (ps. by Alberto Pincherle) (1907 - 1990)
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