Quotes with impressive

  • There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
  • Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
  • The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

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  • Andrew Carnegie People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Albert Einstein A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bernard Levin Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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  • Bob Edwards But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Bill Hybels God doesn't want us to pile up impressive phrases. He doesn't want us to use words without thinking about their meaning. He wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Adam Arkin I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Boris Kodjoe Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Robert Benchley Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • C. Wright Mills One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
    The Sociological Imagination (1959) P. 31, commenting on the verbosity of the chief wo
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Mark Twain The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bernard Ebbers The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.
    Bernard Ebbers
    Canadian businessman (1941 - 2020)
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  • Aldous Huxley The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Anna Lindh The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Calvin Coolidge There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Mark Twain Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Elias Canetti The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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