Quotes with one-seventh

Quotes 5621 till 5640 of 5912.

  • Cesare Pavese Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Felix Frankfurter Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
    Felix Frankfurter
    Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist (1882 - 1965)
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  • Mark Twain Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Lord Longford With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.
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  • Baltasar Kormakur With a huge storm, you need a lot of volume, but it can't become one loud noise. Dolby Atmos helped a lot because it gave us the separation of those elements.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Charles Dickens With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Ben Horowitz With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have probably not been paying that much attention.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Jean Anouilh With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ezra Pound With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Robert Pollok With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out.
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  • Brad Delson With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both money and awareness for the long-term rebuilding effort we must all support.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Ben Folds With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Butch Trucks With The Allman Brothers, we made two studio records that were OK, but the first really great album was the live one, 'At Fillmore East.' We were a live band, and it's one of the reasons we were able to stick around for 45 years.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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