Quotes with tragedy-in-the-making

Quotes 241 till 260 of 666.

  • Ben Goldacre If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Hans Selye If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
    Hans Selye
    Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist and scientist (1907 - 1982)
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  • John Wooden If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Carl Honore In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Iris Murdoch In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • R. H. Hutton In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Jami In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.
    Jami
    Arabic Sufi poet, scholar and writer
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  • Lord George Byron In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.
    Childe Harold 1, 20
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Joseph R. Sizoo In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.
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  • Walter Lippmann In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Bela Lugosi In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Carol P. Christ In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Joni Mitchell In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
    Joni Mitchell
    Canadian singer-songwriter (1943 - )
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  • Bode Miller In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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