Quotes with tragedy-in-the-making

Quotes 401 till 420 of 666.

  • Eva Figes Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for ''doing the best'' for his children?
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  • Barry Ritholtz Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Brit Morin Really take the time to focus on finding your voice and making sure that whatever you're creating is of high quality and is useful for people in their everyday lives.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Anthea Turner Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.
    Anthea Turner
    English television presenter (1960 - )
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  • Anatole France Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Alexander Pope Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Lenny Bruce Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such - as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association - the going will be hard indeed.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Aleister Crowley Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Paul Valery Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Florence King Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Bai Ling Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Marty Feldman Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules.
    Marty Feldman
    British actor and comedian (1934 - 1982)
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  • Bo Bennett Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • H. L. Wayland Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.
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  • Charles Dudley Warner Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
    Charles Dudley Warner
    American writer (1829 - 1900)
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  • Emma Goldman Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Brian De Palma So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Peter F. Drucker So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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