Quotes with nine-and-a-half

Quotes 1721 till 1740 of 25371.

  • Norman Schwarzkopf A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
    Norman Schwarzkopf
    American general (1934 - 2012)
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  • Anthea Turner A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.
    Anthea Turner
    English television presenter (1960 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Cass Canfield A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.
    Cass Canfield
     
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  • Seneca A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ben Elliot A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bill Vaughan A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Alfred Nobel A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun A relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Rob Cella A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
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  • Woody Allen A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • William Winwood Reade A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
    William Winwood Reade
    British historian (1838 - 1875)
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  • Carl Sagan A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Owens A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Billy Sunday A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
    Source: As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Fidel Castro A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
    Fidel Castro
    Cuban revolutionary and politician (1926 - 2016)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Adrienne Rich A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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