Quotes with mountain-too-high

Quotes 721 till 740 of 1686.

  • Jonathan Swift It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Andrew Jackson It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Emile Durkheim It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Albert J. Nock It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Thomas Wolfe It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Bobby Flay It is very important that when you put something on the grill, you leave it in place to cook. If you move it around too quickly, chances are it is going to stick.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • George Eliot It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Robert W. Service It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
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  • Blake Mycoskie It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Abdul Kalam It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Robert Benchley It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Bob Saget It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Brandon Routh It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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  • Blythe Danner It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.
    Blythe Danner
    American actress (1943 - )
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  • Bruce Davison It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Betty Ford It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
    The times of my life
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Adrian Edmondson It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Bill Paxton It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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