Quotes with one-liners

Quotes 5561 till 5580 of 5903.

  • Anselm Kiefer When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.
    Anselm Kiefer
    German painter and sculptor (1945 - )
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  • Mae West Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Harry S. Truman Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Lord George Byron Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Billy Gardell Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler Whenever I sing 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' the way people sing along with me still excites me. It's one of the songs that audiences know all the lyrics to, and they sing along with me, and it makes me so happy. People also know my songs 'Holding out for a Hero' and 'Lost in France,' and this gives me so much joy on stage.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • T. S. Eliot Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Leon Trotsky Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Bill Hicks Where have I been? I've been on my flying saucer tour. Which means like flying saucers I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately...no one doubts my existence.
    Sane Man
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Frederick Douglass Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Lionel Trilling Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Dwight L. Moody Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • James Russell Lowell Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • William James Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Lord Samuel Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
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  • Lewis S. Feuer Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.
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