Quotes with peace-at-any-price

Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 2589.

  • Bergen Evans That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
    Bergen Evans
    American professor and television host
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  • George Bernard Shaw That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ernest Hemingway That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Butch Trucks That whole Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing - at least half the people in there don't have a place in any kind of hall of fame anywhere, in my opinion.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Carol Loomis The 'Fortune' I came to work for on Jan. 25, 1954, was a monthly, with pages significantly larger than what you're reading; 'art' covers that did not relate to stories inside; and a newsstand price of $1.25.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • John D. Rockefeller The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • W. H. Auden The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Raymond Chandler The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Mary McCarthy The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Archibald Macleish The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Ben Bernanke The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alice Walker The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Richard Branson The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
    Richard Branson
    English business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Adam Ferguson The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Gloria Steinem The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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