Quotes with one-seventh

Quotes 5521 till 5540 of 5912.

  • George Eliot When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • David Leavitt When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
    David Leavitt
    American novelist and biographer (1961 - )
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  • Alan Alda When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Edith Wharton When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Bryan Batt When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William B. Given When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
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  • Carson Daly When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Napoleon When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Brian Austin Green When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Carol Burnett When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Ronald Knox When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected ''I believe'' to ''One does feel.''
    Ronald Knox
    English Catholic priest, theologian and author (1888 - 1957)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jean Genet When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Benigno Aquino III When the Walkman was the craze in my generation, I was one of the first to have it.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Wrigley Jr When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
    William Wrigley Jr
    American entrepreneur and chewing gum manufacturer (1861 - 1932)
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  • Helen Rowland When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they ''don't understand'' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Shana Alexander When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!
    Shana Alexander
    American journalist (1925 - 2005)
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  • Kahlil Gibran When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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