Quotes with mixture

  • As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
  • What I do is always hard for me to explain, but it's like a mixture of New Orleans jazz and world music, with a little bit of Spanish flavour. I just take all that and mix it with Chilliwack, and something comes out!
  • There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo - or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
  • An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.
  • The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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  • Francis Bacon A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • André Maurois A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Bridget Riley An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.
    The Eyes Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009 (2009)
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • Harold Macmillan As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Marlene Dietrich Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • William Hazlitt Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Adam Savage I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Aristotle No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • John F. Kennedy The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Adam Clarke The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Umberto Eco There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Alfred Einstein There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
    Mozart, His Character, His Work (1962)
    Alfred Einstein
    German-American musicologist (1880 - 1952)
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  • Aristotle There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Gore Vidal There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo - or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Carl Sagan We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carl Sagan We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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