Quotes with sure-thing

Quotes 1981 till 2000 of 2265.

  • Charles Dickens Tongue: well that's a very good thing when it ain't a woman's.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Mae West Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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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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  • John Burroughs Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Abigail Van Buren True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • B. F. Skinner Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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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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  • Calvin Coolidge Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • S. Daniel Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is a man.
    S. Daniel
     
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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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  • L. Powys Use and want make all life a commonplace thing.
    L. Powys
     
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bootsy Collins Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Ang Lee Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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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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  • Robert Collier Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Arnold Newman Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.
    Arnold Newman
    American photographer (1918 - 2006)
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