Quotes with sure-footedness

Quotes 361 till 380 of 432.

  • Billy Collins To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I'm not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.
    The Man Nobody Knows (1924) On Jesus, in Ch. 1 : The Executive
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • Matthew Prior To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Tryon Edwards To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Dale Carnegie Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • John Sterling Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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  • Burton Richter Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Jean Anouilh Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Carl Sandburg Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • John Irving Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean - make sure they know what they mean!
    A prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Barbara Lee We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Havelock Ellis We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Carl Lewis We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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