Quotes with something-and

Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 26101.

  • George Eliot A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Calvin Trillin A t American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Albert Einstein A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what a man needs to be happy ?
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Washington Irving A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Russell B. Long A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.
    Russell B. Long
    American Democratic politician (1918 - 2003)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Simone Weil A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Albert Einstein A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Aldo Leopold A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • Tim O'Brien A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
    Source: De last die ze droegen (1990) 80
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Georges Bernanos A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Carlo Collodi A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
    Source: Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Carl Sagan A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
    Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 58 min 56 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Caroline Leavitt A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Boris Yeltsin A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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