Quotes with high-ticker

Quotes 341 till 360 of 394.

  • Barbara Kingsolver To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Anatole France To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • John Oxenham To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.
    John Oxenham
    English journalist, writer and poet (ps. of William Arthur Dunkerley) (1852 - 1941)
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  • A. E. Housman To-day, the road all runners come,
    Shoulder-high, we bring you home,
    And set you at your threshold down,
    Townsman of a stiller town.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Woody Guthrie Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.
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  • Brad Katsuyama We built a market at IEX that does not sell certain types of technology advantages to high-frequency traders, and as a result, the high-frequency traders that didn't rely on buying those advantages trade on IEX.
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  • Abigail Adams We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Aristotle Onassis We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
    Aristotle Onassis
    Greek shipping magnate (1906 - 1975)
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  • Emily Dickinson We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our stature's touch the skies.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Bill Drayton We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • David Hare Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Campbell Newman What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
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  • Blair Underwood When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Ben Carson When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Boyd Holbrook When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high.
    Boyd Holbrook
    American actor and model
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  • Barbara Mandrell When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Bill Clinton When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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