Quotes with mountain-too-high

Quotes 361 till 380 of 1686.

  • Marcus Valerius Martial Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Charles V Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
    Charles V
    Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria
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  • Horace Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Arthur Henderson Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Ban Ki-moon Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Beilby Porteus Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes, I woo thee, Death! Life and its joys I leave to those that prize them. Hear me, 0 gracious God! At Thy good time let Death approach; I reck not, let him but come in genuine form, not with Thy vengeance armed, too much for man to bear.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Truman Capote Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • C. S. Lewis Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • William Somerset Maugham From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • A. C. Swinburne From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • William Blake Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Alvin Toffler Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Bela Karolyi Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Beth Ditto Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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