Quotes with much-maligned

Quotes 301 till 320 of 1944.

  • Bob Hope Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Butch Trucks Duane lived life right on the edge. If you ever read Goethe's Faust, Duane Allman was very much that kind of figure. His deal with Mephistopheles was to experience everything life has to offer, good and bad.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Adrienne Clarkson Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
    Adrienne Clarkson
    Hong Kong-born Canadian journalist and stateswoman (1939 - )
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  • Agnes Repplier Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Billy Collins Emily Dickinson seems rather tame because she pretty much uses the same meter every time. It's called 'common meter.' It's a line of four beats that's followed by a line of three beats.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • George Santayana Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Blaise Pascal Epictetus goes much further when he asks: Why do we not lose our temper if someone tells us that we have a headache, while we do lose it if someone says there is anything wrong with our arguments or our choice?
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Bill Cosby Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Gertrude Stein Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Bo Bice Everybody out there watches the show and has expectations of wanting to be an 'Idol', but we're going to teach them how much hard work goes into it.
    Bo Bice
    American singer and musician (1975 - )
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Anne Frank Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Marcel Proust Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Beth Broderick Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 51
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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All much-maligned famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 16)