Quotes with right-about-face

Quotes 121 till 140 of 1609.

  • Mme de Stael A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
    Mme de Stael
    French-Swiss novelist and essayist (1766 - 1817)
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  • Ezra Pound A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Juvenal A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Phillips Brooks A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • William Faulkner A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Oscar Wilde A mask tells us more than a face.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Rowan A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Carl Rowan A minority group has arrived only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Henrik Ibsen A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Charles Brower A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
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  • Mark Twain A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general
    Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bee Wilson A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Ramsey Clark A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you.
    Ramsey Clark
    American lawyer and activist (1927 - )
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Jacques Maritain A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
    Jacques Maritain
    French Catholic philosopher (1882 - 1973)
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  • Jean Baudrillard A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth - either epileptic or dead.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Irvin S. Cobb A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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