Quotes with two-states

Quotes 721 till 740 of 1386.

  • Abbe Pierre People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Assata Shakur People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Anatole Broyard People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Bill Hicks People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bill Hicks People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bill Gates People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Louis de Bernieres People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Booth Tarkington People used to say of the two Oliphant brothers that Harlan Oliphant looked as if he lived in the Oliphant's house, but Dan didn't.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Margaret Oliphant Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Mae West Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Oscar Wilde Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Todd Andrew Reid Plato had slaves...George Washington had slaves...So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead!
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  • Charles Baudelaire Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Boris Pasternak Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.
    Source: LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Adam Michnik Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • George Orwell Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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