Quotes with under-the-radar

Quotes 281 till 300 of 441.

  • Adam Ferguson The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Bill Simmons The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • William Carlos Williams The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
    William Carlos Williams
    American poet (1883 - 1963)
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  • Pearl S. Buck The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • May Sarton The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the ''creative'' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Seth Godin The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
    Seth Godin
    American author and business executive (1960 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Assata Shakur The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Burke Marshall The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.
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  • Barbara Olson The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Bobby Scott The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Juvenal The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • George Orwell The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Gerard De Nerval The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the ''I,'' under another form, continues the task of existence.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • Walter Lippmann The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Woody Allen The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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