Quotes with life-and-death

Quotes 2621 till 2640 of 27600.

  • Brigitte Bardot Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Ben Marcus Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • John Updike Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Bob Gunton Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.
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  • Sydney Smith Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Aldous Huxley Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset An ''unemployed'' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Lord Chesterfield An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Harold Loukes An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
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  • Fred A. Allen An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Bette Davis An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Alan Greenspan An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ''Gentlemen'' to the person with whom he is conversing.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Martin Luther An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.
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  • John Fowles An answer is always a form of death.
    John Fowles
    English novelist (1926 - 2005)
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  • Karl Kraus An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Adnan Pachachi An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.
    Adnan Pachachi
    Iraqi and Emirati politician (1923 - 2019)
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