Quotes with small-arms

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  • William Shakespeare To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare To be, or not to be; that is the question;
    Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
    The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
    Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
    And by opposing, end them.
    Hamlet
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Abraham Lincoln To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Barbra Streisand To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Baroness Orczy To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.
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  • Charles Kuralt To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.
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  • William Shakespeare To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Barbara Bush To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Barack Obama Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.
    Speech Chicago 04-11-2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes - our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Douglas Jerrold Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Bill Gates Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Carolina Herrera Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • David Copperfield Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.
    David Copperfield
    American magician (1956 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Jeanette Winterson We are all historians in our small way.
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (2007) 93
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Marianne Williamson We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
    A Return To Love
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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  • Sir Anthony Eden We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.
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  • Arthur Hiller We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage.
    Arthur Hiller
    Canadian-American television and film director (1923 - 2016)
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