Quotes with sure-thing

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  • Lydia M. Child A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Robert Graves A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
    Robert Graves
    English poet, historical novelist, critic and classicist (1895 - 1985)
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  • Abdoulaye Wade A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
    Abdoulaye Wade
    Senegalese politician (1926 - )
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  • Mark Twain A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bette Davis A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Aldo Leopold A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • John Ruskin A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Tim O'Brien A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
    Source: De last die ze droegen (1990) 80
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Thomas Paine A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Robert Henri A thing that has not been begun cannot be finished.
    Source: The art spirit
    Robert Henri
    American painter (born Robert Henri Cozad) (1865 - 1929)
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  • Annie Leibovitz A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Abraham Isaac Kook A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.
    Source: Orot Orot Hatchiah 14
    Abraham Isaac Kook
    Israeli Orthodox Rabbi (1865 - 1935)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Lord Acton A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bess Truman A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
    Bess Truman
    American first lady (1885 - 1982)
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  • Barry Hannah A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Gloria Pitzer About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
    Gloria Pitzer
     
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  • Elizabeth Ashley Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
    Elizabeth Ashley
    American actress of theatre, film, and television (1939 - )
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  • Bill Skarsgard Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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