Quotes with over-preoccupation

Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 1100.

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Bruce Feirstein Whenever you do anything with Bond, you've got Cubby Broccoli and Sean Connery looking over your shoulder.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • KäThe Kollwitz Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?
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  • Bunker Roy Wherever I've been, and I've been to over 20, maybe 25, countries in Africa, I've noticed how their backbone is broken. They don't have any confidence in themselves. They always think a white man will solve their problems from outside for them.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Bill Mauldin While a guy at home is sweating over his income tax and Victory garden, a dogface somewhere is getting great joy out of wiggling his little finger. He does it just to see it move and to prove to himself that he is still alive and able to move it.
    Up Front
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Emile Durkheim While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Barton Seaver While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill. Don't be fooled into thinking that you need any fancy gadgets in order to take advantage of cooking over a live fire. Just a good set of tongs and you're set.
    Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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  • Bunker Roy Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! - hang him!
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Ben Shapiro Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple. And we've had the technology to vote from afar for decades. Why should we have backroom deals made over cigars thousands of miles distant from those who are affected by those deals?
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Katharine Hepburn Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Billy Koch With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.
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  • Bill Maris With a regular venture fund, you raise, let's say, a billion dollars, and then over the next three or four years, you've got to invest that money; otherwise, the people who invested with you will say, 'What are you doing? You're just collecting fees on our money.'
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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W. Bruce Cameron With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on Oprah, Fox News, the Early Show, and Good Morning America. Oprah was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short; you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Betsey Johnson With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • William Cobbett Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Bella Abzug Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
    Bella Abzug
    American lawyer and politician (1920 - 1998)
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  • Bonnie Bedelia Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Peace Pilgrim Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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