Quotes with stand-off

Quotes 761 till 780 of 945.

  • Byron Dorgan This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Bob Kane This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Antonin Artaud Those who live, live off the dead.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Alexander Hamilton Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • William Hazlitt Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Gore Vidal To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Albert Camus To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Og Mandino To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Carly Fiorina To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Samuel Butler To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Og Mandino To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Arthur Herzog To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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  • David J. Schwartz To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • Kofi Annan To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • André Gide To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Leo Burnett To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.
    Leo Burnett
    American advertising executive (1891 - 1971)
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  • Bob Lilly Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
    Bob Lilly
     
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  • E. M. Forster Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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