Quotes with still-born

Quotes 301 till 320 of 1247.

  • Søren Kierkegaard God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Ben Carson God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Jean Paul Getty Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Alberto Moravia Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
    Alberto Moravia
    Italian writer (ps. by Alberto Pincherle) (1907 - 1990)
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  • Edward F. Halifax Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Aldous Huxley Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Hector Hugh Munro Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Jesse Jackson Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • Ivan Boesky Greed is all right, by the way. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
    Ivan Boesky
    American stock trader (1937 - )
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  • William Congreve Grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Carole King Had my grandparents not emigrated when they did, I might have been born Jewish in Eastern Europe during World War II, or I might not have been born at all. Instead, I was born in 1942 in New York City.
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Bob Dylan He not busy being born is busy dying.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle He that can work is born to be king of something.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Butler He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Thomas Hobbes He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Lao-Tzu He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bob Dylan He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Stanislaw Jerzy Lec He who limps is still walking.
    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
    Polish writer (1909 - 1966)
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