Quotes with sound--some-times

Quotes 141 till 160 of 2455.

  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Anatole France A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Bob Dylan A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
    Liner notes bij album Bringing It All Back Home
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • John Jay Chapman A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Boris Yeltsin A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Marcel Proust A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Seneca A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bob Graham A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Carlos Salinas A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
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  • Wyndham Lewis A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • John Locke A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
    Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Edmund Burke A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Francis Bacon A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Samuel Butler A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Brit Marling A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Lord Acton A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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