Quotes with right-about-face

Quotes 141 till 160 of 1609.

  • Aldo Leopold A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • Brad Feld A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Ben Jonson A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
    Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English gramma
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Malcolm de Chazal A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
    Malcolm de Chazal
    French writer (1902 - 1981)
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  • Gaston Bachelard A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Maurice Blanchot A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
    Maurice Blanchot
    French writer and philosopher (1907 - 2003)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Joe E. Lewis Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • Hans Selye Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
    Hans Selye
    Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist and scientist (1907 - 1982)
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  • Russell Hoban After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Carly Craig After doing comedy for a while and knowing how hard it is to do physical comedy right, I learned how incredibly talented the Three Stooges really were after re-watching old episodes. They still stand up!
    Carly Craig
    American actress (1980 - )
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  • Barbara Cartland After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Helen Rowland After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ralph B. Perry Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
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  • Albert Camus Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bobby Vinton All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Billie Holiday All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Bobby Seale All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.
    Interview with The Guardian (February 1970)
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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