Quotes with old-world

Quotes 1381 till 1400 of 3762.

  • Anne Frank Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: ''What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Is it a fact - or have I dreamt it - that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Thomas Traherne Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Peter Ackroyd Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears?
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Quentin Crisp Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Angela Carter Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Anthony Bourdain Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?
    Anthony Bourdain
    American celebrity chef, author and journalist (1956 - 2018)
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  • Caroline Leavitt Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Cameron Sinclair It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Annie Dillard It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Alexander Haig It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Garry Kasparov It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • Sarah Orne Jewett It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • Arthur Helps It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • Harold Macmillan It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • André Agassi It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
    André Agassi
    American tennis player (1970 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter It is a man's world, and you men can have it.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Albert J. Beveridge It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.
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