Quotes with left-hand

Quotes 381 till 400 of 717.

  • Brin-Jonathan Butler My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • William Shakespeare My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bill Rancic My parents were out of town and sent me to stay at my grandma's house. That's where I learned how to make pancakes. I served them to all the old ladies who lived on her block. After the meal, they each left a $5 bill next to their plates. I thought, 'Hey, I'm onto something here.'
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Barbara Park My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Johnny Carson My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
    Johnny Carson
    American TV personality, businessman (1925 - 2005)
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  • Bonnie Tyler My voice was left with its husky sound after surgery on large vocal nodules.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Jonathan Swift Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Ruskin Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Anatole France Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Billy Connolly Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Billy Connolly Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Booker T. Washington No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Brigitte Bardot No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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