Quotes with thing-they

Quotes 5281 till 5300 of 7322.

  • Arthur Middleton The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Iris Murdoch The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Jeremy Bentham The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • Bruce Kent The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.
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  • Elizabeth Taylor The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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  • Winston Churchill The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bob Greene The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.
    Bob Greene
    American journalist and author (1947 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Adam Smith The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Bayard Taylor The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom. When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Roy Hattersley The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.
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  • John Adams The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Karl Kraus The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • John Keats The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Barry Manilow The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time....
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Albion W. Small The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
    Albion W. Small
    American sociologist and editor (1854 - 1926)
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  • Bud Grant The quarterback is the most vulnerable one on the field. He's in an awkward position a lot of times when he throws the ball. So he does have to be protected. You lose a quarterback, you're in trouble. I don't know if they can make it too safe. I think health becomes an issue.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Elaine Dundy The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
    The Dud Avocado (1958) I, 8
    Elaine Dundy
    American writer, actress and journalist (1921 - 2008)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what can we learn from them. How can they become blessings to society, as a life threatening disease is to an individual, by teaching us about the meaning of our life and existence?
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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