Quotes with smooth-running

Quotes 141 till 160 of 165.

  • John Naisbitt We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.
    John Naisbitt
    American author and public speaker (1929 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America - as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Alberto Salazar We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.
    Alberto Salazar
    American track coach and long-distance runner (1958 - )
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  • Adrienne Rich We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Antisthenes We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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  • Randolph Silliman Bourne We must recognize that our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.
    Randolph Silliman Bourne
    American writer and intellectual (1886 - 1918)
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  • Catullus What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.
    Catullus
    Roman poet and lyricist (84 - 54)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Bertolt Brecht What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
    Mother Courage and Her Children The Sergeant, in Scene 1
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Ben Chandler When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job.
    Ben Chandler
    American politician and lawyer (1959 - )
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  • Carl Safina When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Brad Feld When I was in my mid-20s, running a successful company and clinically depressed, I was afraid to talk to anyone other than my psychiatrist about it. I was ashamed that I was even seeing a psychiatrist.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bonnie Tyler When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over and it fell off. It was in the 1970s, and Swansea were doing really well in the league, and most of the team were there. I almost died, but I picked it up, put it back on my head and carried on.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • William Faulkner When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Bruno Maag When we design for non-Latin, we always aim to create a rhythm and texture that is sympathetic so when you have the two scripts running side by side, they create, ideally, the same tonal value on the page.
    Bruno Maag
    Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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  • Brit Hume When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.
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  • Ann Coulter Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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