Quotes with know-nothings

Quotes 1861 till 1880 of 2478.

  • Aaron Eckhart Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Nicholas Breton Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
    Nicholas Breton
    English poet and novelist (1545 - 1626)
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  • Boethius Thus, where'er the drift of hazard
    Seems most unrestrained to flow,
    Chance herself is reined and bitted,
    And the curb of law doth know.
    De Consolatione Philosophia
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Ayn Rand To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Horace Walpole To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
    Letter to Sir Horace Mann (27-05-1776)
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Joe Namath To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
    Joe Namath
    American football quarterback and actor (1943 - )
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  • Olin Miller To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
    Olin Miller
    American businessman
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  • William Butler Yeats To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • George Eliot To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bill Hader To be totally honest? I don't know if I'll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had a facility for it, and I was like, 'Okay, I'm the impression guy.' So you imagine the cast at 'SNL' is an A-Team, and you've got the explosives guy, and I'm the impression guy.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Mark Twain To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Grenville Kleiser To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.
    Grenville Kleiser
    Canadian-American author (1868 - 1935)
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  • Al Oerter To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.
    Al Oerter
    American athlete (1936 - 2007)
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  • Barbara Walters To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Emily Dickinson To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Samuel Butler To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Anatole France To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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