Quotes with much-maligned

Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 1944.

  • Brendan Gleeson The horror of a death without dignity has so much implications for the people who are left behind.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Mother Teresa The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Voltaire The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Benjamin Graham The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
    Storage and Stability Preface, p. vii
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Carl Sagan The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Walter Benjamin The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Wyndham Lewis The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • William Bragg The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
    William Bragg
    English physicist, chemist and mathematician
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  • Aldous Huxley The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Carolyn Murphy The industry's much quicker. The turnover with models - I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Anni-Frid Lyngstad The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood.
    Anni-Frid Lyngstad
    Norwegian-Swedish singer and environmentalist
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  • Woody Allen The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Woody Allen The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Robertson Davies The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • George Santayana The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Ben Okri The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Billy Paul The male singers who had the same range I did, when I was growing up, didn't do much for me. But put on Nina Simone, Carmen McRae or Nancy Wilson, and I'd be in seventh heaven. Female vocalists just did more with their voices, and that's why I paid more attention to them.
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  • William Cowper The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Charles M. Schwab The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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