Quotes with low-key

Quotes 201 till 220 of 242.

  • Henry Miller The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Brad Stone There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on same-day distribution or broad selection or low prices. All that said, there are advantages that accrue to the largest player, so I don't see much in the way of Amazon slowing down.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Omar Khayyam There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Ben Wheatley There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move, it costs time and money.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Abraham Cowley This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Abbe Pierre Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Oxenham To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.
    John Oxenham
    English journalist, writer and poet (ps. of William Arthur Dunkerley) (1852 - 1941)
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  • John Dewey To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Beck To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bobby Scott Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • John Naisbitt We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.
    John Naisbitt
    American author and public speaker (1929 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Asa Gray We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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