Quotes with touch-and-go

Quotes 2581 till 2600 of 25192.

  • Bruce Catton And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.
    Bruce Cattons America: selections from his greatest works
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Barry McGuire And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Barbara Mandrell And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Carl Sandburg And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
    Chicago l. 10 (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • A. B. Yehoshua And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Alcuin of York And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
    Original: Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
    Epistle 127
    Alcuin of York
    English scholar, clergyman and poet
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  • Marcus Aurelius And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Aeschylus And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Anthony Trollope And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Carter G. Woodson And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Anne Boleyn And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.
    Anne Boleyn
    English queen, second wife of Hendruk VIII
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  • William Shakespeare And thus the native hue of resolution I is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
    Hamlet (1600)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lewis Carroll And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Birch Bayh And Title IX coming along there. I don't think Evan would have done any different than I did. I was fortunate to be there at a time when that was right.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Alanis Morissette And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Barney Frank And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Alfred Marshall And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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