Quotes with holier-than-thou

Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 4321.

  • Mark Twain It takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bill Bennett It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not.
    Bill Bennett
    Canadian politician (1932 - 2015)
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  • Barack Obama It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Caspar Weinberger It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
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  • Mark Twain It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ben Affleck It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of '98. Before that, I was basically unknown. Then, bang! The starting gun fired, and everybody just started running. It was learn-on-the-job. And there were more opportunities for work than I had time to do them.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Camilla Belle It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Arthur Machen It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
    A Study in Scarlet (1887)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Barry Gibb It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Alice Hamilton It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Brian Austin Green It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • William Penn It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Lord Melbourne It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Beanie Sigel It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album.
    Beanie Sigel
    American rapper and actor (1974 - )
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  • Barbara Walters It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Ben Shahn It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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