Quotes with sure-thing

Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 2265.

  • Kenneth Hildebrand The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
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  • Richard M. DeVos The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
    Richard M. DeVos
    American businessman, co-founder of Amway Corp. (1926 - 2018)
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  • Walter Lippmann The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Adrian Cronauer The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Paul Newman The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films.
    Paul Newman
    American actor (1925 - 2008)
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  • George Orwell The existence of good bad literature - the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously - is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ben Carson The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue... A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • John Stuart Mill The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing, when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.
    Source: On liberty (1859)
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Andy Rooney The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Ben Bernanke The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry van Dyke The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
    Source: Fisherman's Luck (1899) , ch. 5
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Barry Commoner The First Law of Ecology: Everything Is Connected to Everything Else.... The Second Law of Ecology: Everything Must Go Somewhere.... The Third Law of Ecology: Nature Knows Best.... The Fourth Law of Ecology: There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.
    Source: The Closing Circle
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Robert Frost The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Ben Affleck The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Fred A. Allen The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Bob Schaffer The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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