Quotes with know-nothings

Quotes 2001 till 2020 of 2478.

  • Bruce Babbitt We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Mark Twain We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Benedict Arnold We have but very indifferent men in general. Great part of those who ship for seamen know very little of the matter.
    Letter to General Gates (7 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5
    Benedict Arnold
    American military officer (1741 - 1801)
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  • Robert E. Lee We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Carl Sagan We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Mark Twain We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carl Karcher We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.
    Carl Karcher
    American businessman (1917 - 2008)
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  • Boris Kodjoe We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don't deal with ourselves and don't deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Cybill Shepherd We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
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  • Benigno Aquino III We in the Philippines know we have to perform our own role in terms of promoting peace in the world. We are actually members of the U.N. peacekeeping forces in many areas.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Alan Bean We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.
    Alan Bean
    American naval officer and aviator (1932 - 2018)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Hesiod We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Sigmund Freud We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a ''dark continent'' for psychology.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Geoffrey Chaucer We know little of the things for which we pray.
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    British poet (1340 - 1400)
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  • Barbara Boxer We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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