Quotes with mountain-too-high

Quotes 1001 till 1020 of 1686.

  • George Bernard Shaw People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Stanislaw Jerzy Lec People find life entirely too time-consuming.
    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
    Polish writer (1909 - 1966)
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  • George Carey People have described me as a ''management bishop'' but I say to my critics, ''Jesus was a management expert too.''
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carlisle Floyd People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Andy Warhol People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Francis Bacon People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Vaclav Havel People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Malcolm Forbes People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Aldous Huxley People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Virgil Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Albert J. Nock Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Campbell Brown Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Angela Merkel Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Phillipsburg was the name of one those badly drawn fortresses resembling a fool with his nose too close to the wall.
    On War (1832) Ch. 11
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Eugene Wigner Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve
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  • Carmen Kass Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
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  • William Wordsworth Plain living and high thinking are no more.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Beyonce Knowles Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • William Cowper Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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