Quotes with out-of-the-way

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  • Kenneth Tynan A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
    Kenneth Tynan
    English theater critic and writer (1927 - 1980)
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  • Pam Brown A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
    Pam Brown
    Australian poet (1948 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde A gentleman never looks out of the window.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Buddha A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Cyril Connolly A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • John Updike A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Burning Spear A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many records they've sold and where they've sold. I know that I have never been treated the way I'm supposed to be treated - like an artist. That's why I do things for myself. I feel like I'm a free man.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
    The problem of pain p. 41
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Mark Twain A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Betty Friedan A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Al Gore Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Sun Tzu All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Thomas E. Lawrence All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality.
    Thomas E. Lawrence
    British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer (1888 - 1935)
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  • Karl Marx All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • David Cronenberg All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.
    David Cronenberg
    Canadian movie maker (1943 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Robert Frost Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Barack Obama And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Albert Einstein And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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