Quotes with three-fourths

Quotes 81 till 100 of 424.

  • Simone Weil Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Alphonse Karr Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Brooks Robinson Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.
    Brooks Robinson
    American professional baseball player (1937 - )
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  • Norman Vincent Peale First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ''I believe,'' three times.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Bert Lance Folks are serious about three things: Their religion, their family and, most of all, their money.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Albert Ellis For a man there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and women. It is often difficult to say which is the worst.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Bob Inglis For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries.
    Bob Inglis
    American politician (1959 - )
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  • Barbara Mandrell For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Bryn Terfel For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Kofi Annan From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.
    Toespraak bij ontvangst Nobelprijs (2001)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Baba Kalyani Fundamentally, we have broken our aerospace business into three parts - large parts which go into the wings and fuselage, components for jet engines, and specialised structural components for landing gear.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Gail Godwin Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
    Gail Godwin
    American novelist and short story writer (1937 - )
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  • Bill Buford Gordon Ramsay, the only chef in London honored with three stars by the 'Guide Michelin,' is not a monster.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • John Ruskin Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Epictetus He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle He possesses two out of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power of observation and that of deduction. He is only wanting in knowledge.
    The Sign of the Four (1890)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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