Quotes with right-about-face

Quotes 1241 till 1260 of 1609.

  • Carol Gilligan The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Billy Sunday The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Billy Dee Williams The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time around.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Aneurin Bevan The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Robert Browning The year's at the spring; And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven, All's right with the world!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Agnes De Mille Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
    Agnes De Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bobby Darin There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Carl Sagan There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Brad Carson There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you're a denier of that fact, then you're not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal.
    Brad Carson
    American lawyer and politician (1967 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Douglas Everett There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
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  • Bobby Schilling There are still times when I am walking up, and I look at the Capitol, and I think, 'Oh my goodness.' Right now, I am kind of scared to go onto the floor and speak. Once I get used to it, though, they probably won't be able to keep me off there.
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  • Belle Boyd There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.
    Belle Boyd
    American Confederate spy (1844 - 1900)
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  • Archibald Macleish There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Carl Honore There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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