Quotes with right-about-face

Quotes 841 till 860 of 1609.

  • B. B. King My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Napoleon: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. Giuseppe: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez Necessity has the face of a dog.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • John Churton Collins Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
    John Churton Collins
    British literary critic (1848 - 1908)
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  • Isaac Asimov Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John D. Rockefeller Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • William Howard Taft Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.
    William Howard Taft
    American politician, judge and President of the United States (1857 - 1930)
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  • Henry Miller Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene - nine-tenths of it!
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Buddy Hackett Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Ralph Gerard No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!
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  • Albert Einstein No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Mark Twain No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Robert Lynd No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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