Quotes with right-about-face

Quotes 441 till 460 of 1609.

  • Abraham Cowley His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Konrad Lorenz Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
    Konrad Lorenz
    German so lied (1903 - 1989)
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  • Ben Bernanke Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Anne Lamott Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
    Anne Lamott
    American novelist and non-fiction writer (1954 - )
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  • Barbara Olson Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Bill Flores House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Alexander the Great How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Bill Hicks How much do you smoke, sir? Two packs a day, is that right? Pussy. I go through two lighters a day. That's right, two lighters! You're a health nut compared to me. You're like the Jack LaLanne of smokers compared to me.
    Flying Saucer Tour Vol. I
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Anne Frank How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Raymond Chandler However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Laurens van der Post Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
    Laurens van der Post
    South African army officer and English author (1906 - 1996)
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  • Bernard Beckett Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Ann Veneman I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Stokely Carmichael I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • James Thurber I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Leonard Cohen I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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