Quotes with over-preoccupation

Quotes 101 till 120 of 1100.

  • Bob Schieffer American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Max Planck An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning.
    Max Planck
    German physicist (1858 - 1947)
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  • Washington Irving An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Bob Schieffer And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Bob Knight And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Bertolt Brecht And when she was finished they laid her in earth
    Flowers growing, butterflies juggling over her...
    She, so light, barely pressed the earth down
    How much pain it took to make her as light as that!
    Source: Poems, 1913-1956 To my mother [Meiner Mutter] (May 1920), trans. Jo
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Barbara Bush And who knows? Somewhere out there 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
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Arthur Laffer And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Barry Unsworth Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Bruce Greenwood Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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  • Bobby Scott Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Franz Kafka Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Carl Sandburg Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Byron Nelson Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
    Byron Nelson
     
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  • Buffalo Bill As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bill Nye As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Brad Feld As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Carl Van Vechten As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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