Quotes with jack-of-all-trades

Quotes 3181 till 3200 of 6348.

  • Kahlil Gibran Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Denis Waitley Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Alan Bennett Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Jack London Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
    Jack London
    American writer (ps. by John Griffith Chaney) (1876 - 1916)
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  • Leon Trotsky Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Stephen Vincent Benét Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
    Stephen Vincent Benét
    American poet, short story writer, and novelist (1898 - 1943)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bruce Dickinson Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Franz Kafka Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Marsha Sinetar Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
    Marsha Sinetar
    American writer
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  • Jonathan Raban Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
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  • Anita Brookner Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
    Vivian Grey (1826) VIII, ch. 4
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Ariel Sharon Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.
    Ariel Sharon
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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  • Agnes Smedley Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Al Capp Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.
    Al Capp
    American cartoonist and humorist (1909 - 1979)
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  • Carlos Fuentes Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Assata Shakur Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 65
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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