Quotes with mountain-too-high

Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 1686.

  • André Gide The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Katharine Hepburn The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Ben E. King The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Samuel Johnson The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bob Woodward The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Samuel Butler The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Horace The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Anton Chekhov The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Finley Peter Dunne The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Mary Corelli The only true criticism of high art is silence, silence as grand as heaven itself.
    Mary Corelli
    British writer (1855 - 1924)
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  • Malcolm X The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba - yes Cuba too.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Aleister Crowley The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Bayard Taylor The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Dean Koontz The past is the teat that feeds those too weak to face the future
    Dean Koontz
    American writer and screenwriter (born 1945) (1945 - )
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  • Bernard Williams The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Angela Merkel The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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