Quotes with table-lands

Quotes 81 till 100 of 113.

  • Bertrand Russell The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bruce Babbitt The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Philip Roth The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody who comes in out of the blue and says the truth. Everything else is table manners.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Bayard Taylor The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.''
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Frist The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Alexander Pope There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.''
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Emily Dickinson There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • William M. Peck There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.
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  • Bobby Ghosh There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, 'Guys, I come from India. I'm more optimistic coming from where I'm coming.'
    Bobby Ghosh
    Indian-born American journalist and commentator
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  • Joe E. Lewis They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • Beth Broderick This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Carl Honore Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Cat Stevens Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Albert J. Beveridge We are a conquering race. We must obey our blood and occupy new markets and if necessary new lands.
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  • Ben Nelson We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America's lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Bill Owens We must renew our efforts to keep our communities safe, from the dangers of terrorists from foreign lands and from common criminals here at home. Let no criminal believe that tough fiscal times will yield an open cell door and a ticket to freedom.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Calista Flockhart Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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