Quotes with mountain-too-high

Quotes 1301 till 1320 of 1686.

  • George Santayana There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Carl Sagan There is a lurking fear that some things are 'not meant' to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human being to make.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Woodrow Wilson There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Victor Hugo There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Ari Fleischer There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest.
    Ari Fleischer
    American media consultant and political aide (1960 - )
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  • Og Mandino There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Anne Stevenson There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Bill Nye There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Thomas Hobbes There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end.
    Leviathan ch. 31
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Amelia Barr There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Billie Jean King There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
    Billie Jean
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Samuel Johnson There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • John O'Brian There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places a strain on the reputation of an individual which is indelible and lasting, regardless of the complete innocence later proved.
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  • Anna Quindlen There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Thomas Mann There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Woodrow Wilson There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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