Quotes with take-no-prisoners

Quotes 901 till 920 of 1268.

  • Charles Péguy The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
    Charles Péguy
    French writer and poet (1873 - 1914)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Ezra Pound The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • William Butler Yeats The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Angela Carter The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Bob Monkhouse The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.
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    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • Brit Marling The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Andy Hertzfeld The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Hilaire Belloc The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Marian Anderson The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
    Marian Anderson
    African-American contralto and one (1897 - 1993)
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  • Ashley Montagu The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Anita Roddick The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Martin Luther King The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Ben Whishaw The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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  • Clark Moustakas The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
    Clark Moustakas
    American psychologist (1923 - 2012)
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  • Bernard Goldberg The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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