Quotes with right-about-face

Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 1609.

  • Bernard Bailyn What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 218
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Bono What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?
    PENN Address (2004)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bill Dedman What are the odds that a nuclear emergency like the one at Fukushima Dai-ichi could happen in the central or eastern United States? They'd have to be astronomical, right?
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Ben Parr What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Phyllis Schlafly What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
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  • Archibald Macleish What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Ian McEwan What is lawful is not always identical to what is right.
    (2014)
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Barry Commoner What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Baltasar Gracian What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Jane Austen What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Carolyn Chute What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Henry David Thoreau What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Ruskin What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Italo Calvino What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Brendan Behan What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
    The Complete Plays
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Napoleon Hill What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Bill Clinton What we have to do now is not to forget these people and places when all the cameras are not there. I think that's the most important message I can say to the American people right now.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Andrew Cohen What you're getting excited about is not A face, but a feminine face.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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