Quotes with little-minded

Quotes 1281 till 1300 of 1350.

  • Bill Condon While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Barack Obama While the evidence tells me that the death penalty does little to deter crime, I believe there are some crimes- mass murder, the rape and murder of a child- so heinous, so beyond the pale, that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment.
    The Audacity of Hope (2006)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Caroline Knapp Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Robert Herrick Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • John Keats Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Charles L. Allen Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?
    Charles L. Allen
    American ordained United Methodist minister (1913 - 2005)
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  • Lewis Mumford Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Sigmund Freud Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Raymond Chandler Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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  • John Maynard Keynes Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
    New Statesman and Nation, 15 July 1933
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • David Sarnoff Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
    David Sarnoff
    American Entrepreneur (1891 - 1971)
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  • John Steinbeck Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Ben E. King Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Carol Shields Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Aaron Stanford You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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  • Epictetus You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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