Quotes 921 till 940 of 1293.
-
The monster of advertisement... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.
-
The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.
-
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
-
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
-
The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: ''He kept down the cost and set the type right.''
-
The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.
-
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
Original:Le besoin d'avoir raison - marque d'esprit vulgaire.
-
The next time you download a book on Kindle, buy a Michael Moore screed at Barnes & Noble, or order up a political movie from video on demand, remember that it is the Supreme Court's decision in 'Citizens United' that guarantees you the right to do so.
-
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
-
The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
-
The only person I do worry about, that I want to be a good person for, I think is my responsibility, is my sister. I'm going to be cool for you, okay. I like, I need to, I like being by myself right now. I think it's good for me.
60 Minutes interview (2003) -
The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
-
The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
-
The other puppeteers are really good, often when they are singing together, they go left, right, left... But if they are all moving to the left, I'm moving to the right. Big Bird and Oscar, that's okay, because they are individuals anyway.
-
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963) -
The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
-
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
-
The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
-
The process of getting regulations right is described publicly as far more political than in fact it is. It's essentially a legal and technical enterprise.
All right-minded famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 47)
