Quotes with high-falutin

Quotes 181 till 200 of 394.

  • Margaret Mead Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Charles Simmons Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Ben Casnocha It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Angela Merkel It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Bainbridge Colby It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Albert Einstein It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Vincent van Gogh It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
    Vincent van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Thomas Wolfe It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Abdul Kalam It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Blythe Danner It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.
    Blythe Danner
    American actress (1943 - )
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  • Casey Stengel It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Bryan Ferry It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Bruce Sutter It's that way all the way down the line. I've got a boy coaching college ball and another son coaching high school. All the way down to summer leagues, all the way down to kids who are 14 years old. All those teams have a closer.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It's the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carine Roitfeld It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • B. B. King Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Regis McKenna Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like seven years in any other industry.
    Regis McKenna
    American marketing expert (1939 - )
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  • Arthur Helps Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • Bubba Watson Kids below 10 or 12, I think they just need to learn by playing at golf. Later on, in high school, when they develop muscles and everything, that's when they need to see about getting lessons.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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