Quotes with late-19th-century

Quotes 121 till 140 of 325.

  • Nikola Tesla In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Bill Gates In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bill Owens In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Remy de Gourmont Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Lillian Hellman Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.
    Lillian Hellman
    American playwright (1905 - 1984)
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  • Maximilien Robespierre Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?
    Maximilien Robespierre
    French lawyer and statesman (1758 - 1794)
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  • Ben Carson It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Mumy It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • George Eliot It is never too late to be what you might have been.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Daniel Defoe It is never too late to be wise.
    Robinson Crusoe (1719)
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
    Walden (1854) Chapter 1: Economy
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • E. M. Cioran It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Cato the Elder It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Caitlin Moran It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Bille August It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • Betty Ford It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
    The times of my life
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Tom Robbins It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
    Tom Robbins
    American novelist (1932 - )
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  • Barack Obama It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Windsor Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
    Barbara Windsor
    English actress (1937 - )
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