Quotes with mountain-too-high

Quotes 1441 till 1460 of 1686.

  • Georges Clemenceau War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Karl Kraus War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Woody Guthrie Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.
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  • Fred A. Allen Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • John Osborne We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.
    John Osborne
    English playwright, screenwriter and actor (1929 - 1994)
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  • Frank Moore Colby We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter We always plan too much and always think too little.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Terence We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Mark Twain We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Andrew Jackson We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Bernard Arnault We are really very lucky to have so many fantastic brands. But to grow them we should not be too much in a hurry. They are growing fast, but they have to grow accordingly to the market and to the capacity we have to deliver good products.
    Bernard Arnault
    French businessman (1949 - )
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  • Marianne Moore We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Anthony Burgess We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Juvenal We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Bill Richardson We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Joseph Fort Newton We build too many walls around us and not enough bridges into the lives of others.
    The One Great Church: Adventures of Faith (1948)
    Joseph Fort Newton
    American Baptist minister (1876 - 1950)
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  • Brad Katsuyama We built a market at IEX that does not sell certain types of technology advantages to high-frequency traders, and as a result, the high-frequency traders that didn't rely on buying those advantages trade on IEX.
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