Quotes with right-about-face

Quotes 961 till 980 of 1609.

  • Laurence Sterne Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Malcolm X Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Malcolm X Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bob Beauprez President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Pretty much, you point to a problem and good reasoning about why people are doing what they are doing and what constraints they face in terms of how others will behave, and you're looking at a problem that could be improved upon by game-theoretic reasoning.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Hillary Clinton Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.
    Hillary Clinton
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bill Buford Probably the single most important evolutionary trait dogs developed was right there at the outset, illuminated by the campfire. It is in those eyebrows and in the way dogs have of tilting their heads. They are warm packages of emotions.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Robert Redford Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
    Robert Redford
    American actor (born 1936) (1936 - )
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  • Arthur Koestler Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Arthur Levitt Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • John Adams Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
    A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Eva Figes Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for ''doing the best'' for his children?
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  • Barry Eisler Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • A. D. Hope Quaking muscles in the act of birth,
    Between her legs a pigmy face appear,
    And the first murderer lay upon the earth.
    Imperial Adam (l. 42-44)
    A. D. Hope
    Australian poet and essayist (1907 - 2000)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Brandon DiCamillo Ralph could you please sit down and behave yourself or we are going to have to throw you out. As a matter of fact Ralph can you leave right now?....Ok sit down.
    From Brans Icelandic Gameshow
    Brandon DiCamillo
    American actor, stunt performer, filmmaker and musician (1976 - )
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  • Barry Hannah Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Aneurin Bevan Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Oprah Winfrey Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Laurence J. Peter Reality is for people who can't face drugs.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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