Quotes with no-one

Quotes 3621 till 3640 of 5903.

  • Katherine Anne Porter Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • Thomas Paine Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS - our inferior one varies with the place.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Bill McKibben Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new hydrocarbons, and sit down with every one else to plan to keep 80 percent of the reserves in the ground.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Blair Underwood Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Vauvenargues Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Bill Simmons Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams. Some of the best relationships I ever had were with Boston athletes that I never even met.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Adrian Cronauer Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Bill Clinton Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas - to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • John Bunyan Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Barack Obama Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
    Source: Speech, 04-12-2014
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Henry Fuseli Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.
    Henry Fuseli
     
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Marcel Proust Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Ben Bernanke Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • William James Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • William Butler Yeats Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Eliza Farnham Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
    Eliza Farnham
    American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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  • Barry Gibb Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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