Quotes with holier-than-thou

Quotes 4121 till 4140 of 4321.

  • Calvin Klein Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Sophocles Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • David Sarnoff Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
    David Sarnoff
    American Entrepreneur (1891 - 1971)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jim Rohn Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Noel Coward Work is more fun than fun.
    Noel Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Caskie Stinnett Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.
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  • Alexander Herzen Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere - ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Julie Burchill Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Henry Rollins Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
    Henry Rollins
    American musician, actor and writer (1961 - )
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  • Bob Graham Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Dr. Jerome Brunner You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.
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  • Samuel Johnson You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Bo Bennett You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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