Quotes with often-repeated

Quotes 621 till 640 of 885.

  • 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 Mkapa The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.
    September 1999
    Benjamin Mkapa
    Tanzanian politician (1938 - 2020)
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  • Bruce Jackson The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Bernard Joseph Saurin The law often permits what honor prohibits.
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  • Elbert Hubbard The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Bernard Devoto The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
    Bernard Devoto
    American historian, essayist and teacher
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  • Brandon Sanderson The more limitations you put on a character, often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can't simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • André Gide The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • André Gide The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • William Hazlitt The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Bob Barr The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Carol P. Christ The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Richard Nixon The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Richard M. DeVos The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
    Richard M. DeVos
    American businessman, co-founder of Amway Corp. (1926 - 2018)
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  • Alice Hoffman The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
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