Quotes with paper-train

Quotes 101 till 120 of 179.

  • Jim Rohn Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • A. Alvarez No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
    A. Alvarez
    English poet, novelist, essayist and critic (1929 - 2019)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, “This is what is expected of you. But… I’m lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role… I love being with people.”
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Not a red rose or a satin heart.
    I give you an onion.
    It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
    It promises light
    like the careful undressing of love... I am trying to be truthful.
    Source: Valentine, from Mean Time (1993)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Henry Newman Nothing is so easy as to be religious on paper.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Lord George Byron O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ralph Nader Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.
    Ralph Nader
    American political activist, author and attorney (1934 - )
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  • Abraham Pais Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Abraham Pais Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Will Rogers One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Alfred Kazin One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
    Alfred Kazin
     
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  • George Bernard Shaw Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Dr. Walter Smith Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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  • Richard Deupree Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently
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  • Cat Stevens Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Eugene Wigner Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve
    Eugene Wigner
     
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  • Karl Kraus Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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