Quotes with main-spring

Quotes 161 till 180 of 208.

  • Bill Cunningham The main thing I love about street photography is that you find the answers you don't see at the fashion shows. You find information for readers so they can visualize themselves.
    Bill Cunningham
    American fashion photographer
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  • Billie Jean King The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
    Billie Jean
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Otto Von Bismarck The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Conor Cruise O'Brien The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
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  • Bertrand Russell The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bill Dedman The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bee Wilson The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Bill Haley The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.
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  • Ernest Hemingway The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • George Orwell The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Buddha The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beingsÂ… As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become.
    Dhammapada
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bill Veeck The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robert Browning The year's at the spring; And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven, All's right with the world!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Bill Hybels There are two main principles I've picked up over the years as they pertain to cultivating the type of faith that moves mountains. The first is this: Faith comes by looking at God, not at the mountain. The second is this: God gives us faith as we walk by his side.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Chief Seattle There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Anne Campbell There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Alec Baldwin There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Ben Lovett There's no platform for an unsigned music scene in the main cities - it's all hyped acts or showcases behind closed doors. I read about artists that are doing it 'the old-fashioned way' and touring, as if that's a unique thing to do - well, that should just be the way it is.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Bill Clinton They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and their ranks are growing thinner, but let us never forget, when they were young, these men saved the world.
    Speech on the 50th anniversary of D-Day at the United States Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, 6 June 1994
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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