Quotes with over-preoccupation

Quotes 681 till 700 of 1100.

  • Samuel Johnson So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Edward Dahlberg So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • John Dryden So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Isadora Duncan So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Lee Iacocca So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Ben Shapiro Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carl I. Hagen Some have said that what is happening now is the beginning of World War III. Fundamentalists take over countries with population flows across borders. After some time riots occur, as we see now in France. There is talk about 30,000 recruited suicide bombers.
    About immigration, Islam etc. After the 2005 civil unrest in France, interviewed
    Carl I. Hagen
    Norwegian politician (1944 - )
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  • Bill James Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Helen Rowland Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Martin Amis Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.
    London Fields (1989)
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • Bobby Fischer Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
    Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Barry Diller Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Brad Gilbert Sometimes when you're in the storm, it's harder and maybe when it's over, then you can look back on it.
    Brad Gilbert
    American tennis player (1961 - )
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  • Calvin Harris Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Bobby Hull Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Barbara Bush Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
    Barbara Bush: A Memoir
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Jean Paul Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Seneca Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Arthur Koestler Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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