Quotes with much-maligned

Quotes 1001 till 1020 of 1944.

  • Charles Caleb Colton Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Samuel Johnson Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Madame Guizot Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.
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  • Ben Hecht Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Carl Sagan Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Susan Sontag Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • C. S. Lewis Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Samuel Johnson Much of the pain and pleasure of mankind arises from the conjectures which every one makes of the thoughts of others; we all enjoy praise which we do not hear, and resent contempt which we do not see.
    Idler
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Bryson Much of the tablecloth was a series of grey smudges outlined in a large, irregular patch of yellow that looked distressingly like a urine stain.
    Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Ann Beattie Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Rupert Murdoch Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
    Rupert Murdoch
    Australian-born American media mogul (born 1931) (1931 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Much pessimism is caused by ascribing to others the feelings you would feel if you were in their place.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • William Penn Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • George D. Prentice Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • Bertrand Russell Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
    Human Society in Ethics and Politics
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Agnes Smedley Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Camille Paglia Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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