Quotes with right-hand

Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 1555.

  • Fred Astaire The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
    Fred Astaire
    American dancer, singer, actor and choreographer (1899 - 1987)
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  • Emma Goldman The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Bill Hicks The idea of getting a, you know, syringe full of heroin and shooting it in the vein under my cock right now seems like almost a productive act.
    Im Sorry Folks
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bono The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Hubert Humphrey The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Woodrow Wilson The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Willa Cather The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej The King has a right to make political remarks. He is a Thai citizen and has his rights and freedoms under the Constitution. Each of you is under the Constitution, and so is the King. I am using my freedom under the Constitution.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • T. S. Eliot The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Fred A. Allen The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Raymond Chandler The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Barney Frank The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Henrik Ibsen The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Lord Acton The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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