Quotes with high-sounding

Quotes 321 till 340 of 407.

  • Bernard Williams The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Angela Merkel The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Bastian Schweinsteiger The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.
    Bastian Schweinsteiger
    German professional footballer (1984 - )
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  • Brad Sherman The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit - all of which are sky-high.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis The Prodigal Son at least walked home on his own feet. But who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape?
    Surprised by Joy (1955)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Barry Mann The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Bill Richardson The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Bill Viola The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Angela Merkel The willingness to learn new skills is very high.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Edmund Burke The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Beth Henley Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • George M. Adams There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
    George M. Adams
    American newspaper columnist (1878 - 1962)
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  • Camilla Luddington There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
    Camilla Luddington
    British-American actress (1983 - )
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  • Bill Nye There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end.
    Leviathan ch. 31
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Benjamin Harrison There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.
    State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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