Quotes with same-day

Quotes 1481 till 1500 of 1985.

  • Bill Kurtis The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Bruce Catton The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Karl Kraus The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Jeremy Bentham The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • Germaine Greer The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Anthony Storr The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.
    Anthony Storr
    English psychiatrist and author
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  • Bayard Taylor The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom. When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Elaine Dundy The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
    The Dud Avocado (1958) I, 8
    Elaine Dundy
    American writer, actress and journalist (1921 - 2008)
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  • Bell Hooks The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Bernard De Voto The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
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  • Raymond Chandler The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Barbara de Angelis The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • George Orwell The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Doris Day The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!''
    Doris Day
    American singer, actress and animal activist (1922 - 2019)
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  • Bjork The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Eustace Budgell The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • T. S. Eliot The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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