Quotes with out-of-this-world

Quotes 2701 till 2720 of 5420.

  • Sydney Smith Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Henrik Ibsen Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Ben Huh New media's not very old, hence the word new, so we don't know a lot of things about new media and by the time you've taught it it's probably out of date. I think it's much more beneficial to have an experiential lesson versus a classroom lesson in new media.
    Ben Huh
    South-Korean-American internet entrepreneur (1979 - )
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  • David Letterman New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
    David Letterman
    American television host, comedian, writer, and producer (1947 - )
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  • Jimmy Connors New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
    Jimmy Connors
    American tennis player (1952 - )
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  • Adolf Galland Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Carolyn Maloney Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg Nine times out of ten, people consider a nice little Jewish boy the kid who grows up and sits behind a desk preparing your taxes. I've certainly broken that stereotype in many ways.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Bob Woodward Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Walter Lippmann No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Cyril Connolly No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Seneca No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alfred Adler No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Buenaventura Durruti No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
    Van Paassen interview (1936)
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Vladimir Mayakovsky No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk -handsome, twenty-two year old.
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