Quotes with jack-of-all-trades

Quotes 5741 till 5760 of 6348.

  • Oscar Wilde What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Joseph Conrad What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Barbara de Angelis What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Lord George Byron What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Edgar Quinet What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • John Osborne What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of - is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?
    John Osborne
    English playwright, screenwriter and actor (1929 - 1994)
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  • Oscar Wilde What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alexander Herzen What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Raymond Williams What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
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  • Anatole France What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Jeremy Taylor What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of science is not able to make an oyster.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Jean Dubuffet What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.
    Jean Dubuffet
    French artist (1901 - 1985)
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  • Georges Bernanos What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Liza Minnelli What good is sitting all alone in your room?
    Liza Minnelli
    American actress and singer (1946 - )
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  • Bell Hooks What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Barry McCaffrey What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Terence What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bob Barr What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It's having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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