Quotes with right-about-face

Quotes 221 till 240 of 1609.

  • Desiderius Erasmus Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Robert Half Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • George Orwell At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
    The Orwell Diaries
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bob Edwards At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Albert Camus At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas At least, I'm very happy that it's going out on DVD because if it wasn't for the fans who signed this petition and were really ongoing about how they loved it, we wouldn't see this DVD right now.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Busta Rhymes At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Robert M. Lindner Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
    Robert M. Lindner
    American author and psychologist (1914 - 1956)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Back in the NBA's pre-mask era, ballers with busted noses or orbital bones had two unappealing options: Sit out and heal, or strap on a Michael Myers-looking opaque face shield closely related to that worn by hockey goalies.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Bill Kristol Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.
    Fox News Sunday, December 17, 2006 [2]
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
    The Green Fields of the Mind, Yale Alumni Magazine, November 1977
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Ezra Taft Benson Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.
    Ezra Taft Benson
    American farmer, government official, and religious leader (1985 - 1994)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Caleb Cushing Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Akhenaton Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Donald Culross Peattie Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
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  • E. M. Forster Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Bono Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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