Quotes with much-maligned

Quotes 1601 till 1620 of 1944.

  • Robert Frost They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars - on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Boris Pasternak They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
    On Soviet bureaucrats, in LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • L. Schefer They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.
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  • William Shakespeare They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a little bad.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Little Richard They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin Franklin They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Moses Hadas This book fills a much-needed gap.
    Moses Hadas
    American teacher, translator and classical scholar (1900 - 1966)
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  • Adam Sandler This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Will Rogers This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Byron Dorgan This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Harrison This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.
    Public papers and addresses of Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third President of the United States, March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy This is the word tightrope. Now imagine
    a man, inching across it in the space
    between our thoughts. He holds our breath. There is no word net. You want him to fall, don't you?
    I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.
    The word applause is written all over him.
    Standing Female Nude (1985)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Bobby Bonilla This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!
    Bobby Bonilla
    American Major League Baseball player (1963 - )
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  • Ann Bancroft This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli This shows how much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
    Speech House of Commons (24 januari 1860)
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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All much-maligned famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 81)