Quotes with much-maligned

Quotes 81 till 100 of 1944.

  • Peace Pilgrim You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Donald R. Perry Marquis An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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  • Lewis Carroll ''One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice,'' said the Queen. ''When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.''
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis 'As a genereal rule you shouldn't expect too much from people darling,' and then I kiss her on the cheek.
    Glamorama (1998)
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Carine Roitfeld 'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Bo Burnham 'Words, Words, Words' was very much its title. It's just words, words, words and trying to show that I can pack as much material into an hour as I possibly could word count-wise.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Hesiod A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Henry Miller A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Nancy Lopez A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
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  • Thomas Jefferson A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • H. Manning A critic knows more than the author he criticises, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.
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  • Augustus William Hare A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Alexis Carrel A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • David Lloyd George A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Earl Nightingale A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Ogden Nash A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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