Quotes with over-preoccupation

Quotes 81 till 100 of 1100.

  • Bruce Barton Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Alan Cumming Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
    Alan Cumming
    Scottish-American actor, comedian, singer, and activist (1965 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • George Burns Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon Ah tell me not that memory sheds gladness over the past; what is recalled by faded flowers save that they did not last?
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  • Havelock Ellis All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Carl Schmitt All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.
    Political Theology (1922)
    Carl Schmitt
    German political philosopher and legal scholar (1888 - 1985)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Buddy Valastro All of my family is so close. We're always over at each other's houses.
    Buddy Valastro
    American baker and reality television personality (1977 - )
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Bell Hooks All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • George Orwell All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • William E. Gladstone All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Baltasar Gracian All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • E. B. White All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
    Speech before the Senates Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Arnold Toynbee America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Anthony Walton America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
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