Quotes with stand-off

Quotes 781 till 800 of 945.

  • Bob Riley Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Barbara Boxer Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Carl Honore Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Edgar Quinet Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Confucius Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Barbara Walters Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Bill Flores Washington is out of control, and it's time for Texans to stand up and stop them.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Adam Arkin We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Earl Nightingale We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Shakespeare We are such stuff
    As dreams are made off, and our little life
    Is rounded with a sleep.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carly Fiorina We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Byron Katie We do only three things in life: we sit, we stand, we lie horizontal. The rest is just a story.
    Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
    Byron Katie
    American speaker and author (1942 - )
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  • Honoré de Balzac We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Mark Twain We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Cybill Shepherd We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
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  • Gloria Steinem We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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