Quotes with some

Quotes 1681 till 1700 of 1784.

  • Carl Levin While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Bart Gordon While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
    Bart Gordon
    American lawyer (1949 - )
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  • Barack Obama While the evidence tells me that the death penalty does little to deter crime, I believe there are some crimes- mass murder, the rape and murder of a child- so heinous, so beyond the pale, that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment.
    The Audacity of Hope (2006)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Boethius Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate?
    De Consolatione Philosophiae (The Consolation of Philosophy)De Consolatione Philosophia Book II, section 4, line 41
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • John W. Gardner Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Seneca Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Aristophanes Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Brendan Gleeson Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Abigail Van Buren Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler With all of the people in Cuba who I met - many of them hugely heroic figures - I found learning about their complexity and richness and contradictions just really fascinating, and it was fulfilling to be able to offer a different side to them, to be able to have some kind of unique takeaway from the official narrative.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Brendon Urie With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Augusten Burroughs With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • John Dewey Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • William Butler Yeats Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Don Herold Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.
    Don Herold
    American humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist (1889 - 1966)
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  • Samuel Butler Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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