Quotes with much-maligned

Quotes 841 till 860 of 1944.

  • Barbara Kingsolver It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites - opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity - where energies flow smoothly in one direction - there will be much doing but no music.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Barbara Castle It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barney Frank It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bill Cosby It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • William S. Gilbert It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Barbara McClintock It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
    Barbara McClintock
    American scientist and cytogeneticist (1902 - 1992)
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  • William Shakespeare It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Woody Allen It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Louis de Bernieres It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Joan Baez It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
    Joan Baez
    American singer, songwriter (1941 - )
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  • Bill Medley It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind. Maybe it crossed my mind that it would be cool to have a hit record and a career, but that was so out of reach that I don't think I thought about it that much.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Gertrude Stein It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Bruce Barton It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bille August It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • Barry Gibb It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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