Quotes with main-spring

Quotes 121 till 140 of 208.

  • Robin Williams Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
    Robin Williams
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1951 - 2014)
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  • Charles Dickens Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Doug Larson Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Beth Orton Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I've married someone from Vermont, so it's an expression I kept hearing, and I'm like, 'What is that? That's just so beautiful.' I like the idea it's the very, very first murmurings of spring.
    Beth Orton
    English singer-songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Edmund White The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
    Edmund White
    American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • H.G. Wells The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Aaron Neville The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
    Aaron Neville
    American soul and country singer (1941 - )
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  • Henry van Dyke The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
    Source: Fisherman's Luck (1899) , ch. 5
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Paul Valery The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Hilaire Belloc The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam.
    Source: The Great Heresies (1938) H. III
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Robertson Davies The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Barton Seaver The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.
    Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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  • Arthur Herzog The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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