Quotes with one-third

Quotes 4101 till 4120 of 6002.

  • Michael Harrington That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
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  • Thomas Carlyle That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Beth Henley That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
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    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bai Juyi That we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,
    And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree.
    Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,
    While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.
    The Song of Long Sorrow
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  • Benjamin Franklin That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John Stuart Mill That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Avicenna That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Branford Marsalis That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Carlton Cuse That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Neil Armstrong That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
    Neil Armstrong
    American astronaut and engineer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Oprah Winfrey That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Alberto Giacometti That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • George Eliot That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bobby Fischer That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Barry McGuire That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Leslie Fiedler The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
    Leslie Fiedler
    American literary critic (1917 - 2003)
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  • Sir William Temple The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • André Gide The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Iris Murdoch The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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