Quotes with old-world

Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 3762.

  • Abbey Lincoln I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Beatrix Potter I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...
    Source: Journal entry
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Bertrand Russell I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
    Source: Collection 1: , Brighthouse
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Henry Miller I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • William Blake I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Douglas Macarthur I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Sylvia Plath I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Bryan Brown I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.
    Bryan Brown
     
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  • Burt Rutan I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Tom Stoppard I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • A. E. Housman I tell the tale that I heard told. Mithridates, he died old.
    Source: A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 75 (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Sri Sarada Devi I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
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  • Jean Giraudoux I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
    Jean Giraudoux
    French writer (1882 - 1944)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Brooke Elliott I think a lot of times we're so told in our world that marriage is everything, and having a partner is everything. If you look at our movies and things, it's all directed around that love, and if you don't have that love, how sad you are.
    Brooke Elliott
    American actress and singer (1974 - )
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  • Jose Manuel Barroso I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.
    Jose Manuel Barroso
    Portuguese politician (1956 - )
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  • Vikram Seth I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I think that one of the problems that exists in the United States and in many places in the world is that people don't believe that they can make a difference. So a lot of times we're defeated before we even start. We've become consumers of a world vision, of Kentucky Fried Chicken, of McDonalds.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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