Quotes with over-preoccupation

Quotes 161 till 180 of 1100.

  • Vance Havner Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Cyril Connolly Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Samuel Johnson Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • A. E. Housman Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
    Breath's a ware that will not keep.
    Up, lad: when the journey's over
    There'll be time enough to sleep.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 4 (Reveille), st. 6
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Brit Hume CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Barry Diller Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold Congress has the constitutional authority to investigate the other agencies of government. We are the watchdogs of the taxpayer's money, and we have the right to know how that money is being spent and to conduct oversight over the government.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Cam Newton Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Gordon Sumner Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Buddy Wakefield Dear Angry Older People, over 21-ish, anyone who considers themselves an adult, still bitter: Next time you're wondering what wrong with kids today, you might wanna check the examples you've been giving us to work with.
    Poetry Older People
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Thomas Fuller Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Aldous Huxley Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • B. J. Novak Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
    B. J. Novak
    American actor, writer, comedian, and director (1979 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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