Quotes with much-maligned

Quotes 321 till 340 of 1944.

  • Heywood Broun Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways -and all are right! At least all will do.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Eugène Delacroix Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
    Eugène Delacroix
    French artist (1798 - 1863)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Exploring Castro's pawns in Cuba and exposing anything negative also makes you a pawn to all his enemies 90 miles away. Both sides don't have much of a track record for nuance of opinion.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bob Brown Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • William Faulkner Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Augusto Roa Bastos Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
    Augusto Roa Bastos
    Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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  • George Eliot Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bobby Bowden Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Ann Beattie Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Julie Burchill Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Andy Warhol Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • John Dryden Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Herbert J. Muller Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
    Herbert J. Muller
    American historian and author (1905 - 1980)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Beau Willimon Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you're able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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