Quotes with stand-off

Quotes 641 till 660 of 945.

  • Butch Trucks The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Marcus Aurelius The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Andrew Carnegie The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Bunker Roy The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Brene Brown The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Ben Parr The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Jack Welch The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
    Jack Welch
    American businessman, author, and chemical engineer (1935 - 2020)
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  • I. F. Stone The biggest difference between ancient Rome and the USA is that in Rome the common man was treated like a dog. In America he sets the tone. This is the first country where the common man could stand erect.
    I. F. Stone
    American journalist and writer (1907 - 1989)
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  • Bridgit Mendler The biggest klutz would be myself, so if I could offer help to myself I would. I'm the most off my game most often.
    Bridgit Mendler
    American actress, singer, and songwriter (1992 - )
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  • Bob Uecker The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Ernst Fischer The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
    Ernst Fischer
    Austrian journalist, writer and politician (1899 - 1972)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Raymond Chandler The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
    The Devil's Disciple (1901)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • William O. Douglas The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
    William O. Douglas
    American jurist and politician (1898 - 1980)
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  • Nolan Bushnell The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
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