Quotes with post-world

Quotes 1081 till 1100 of 2960.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Quentin Crisp Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Angela Carter Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Anthony Bourdain Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?
    Anthony Bourdain
    American celebrity chef, author and journalist (1956 - 2018)
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  • Caroline Leavitt Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Cameron Sinclair It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Annie Dillard It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Alexander Haig It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Garry Kasparov It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • Arthur Helps It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • André Agassi It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
    André Agassi
    American tennis player (1970 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter It is a man's world, and you men can have it.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Albert J. Beveridge It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.
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  • Charles Dickens It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Tennessee Williams It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Arthur Henderson It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • William Cobbett It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Carl Sagan It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Plato It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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