Quotes with holier-than-thou

Quotes 3701 till 3720 of 4321.

  • William Penn To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Matthew Prior To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • René Descartes To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Barry Ritholtz To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bruce Catton To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Paul Auster To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
    Timbuktu (2010) 59
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Vachel Lindsay To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
    Vachel Lindsay
    American poet (1879 - 1931)
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  • Jane Austen To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Jean Rostand To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • George Steiner To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Cary Fowler To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Billy West To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
    The Observer, 21 August 1955
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bobby Vinton To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
    Adlai Stevenson
    American politician and vice president (1835 - 1914)
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  • Bobby Vinton To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Marilyn French To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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