Quotes with under-the-radar

Quotes 401 till 420 of 441.

  • W. Phillips We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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  • Susan Sontag We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Alfred Marshall We might as reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by utility or cost of production.
    Principles of Economics (1920) Book V, Ch. III
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall We might as reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by utility or cost of production.
    Principles of Economics (1920) Book V, Ch. III
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  • Milan Kundera We must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Confucius We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Bob Taft We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • David Hare Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • Al Franken Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Walt Whitman What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Aldous Huxley What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Carlos Fuentes What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Benjamin Harrison When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
    State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Philip Roth When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Alberto Moravia When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
    Alberto Moravia
    Italian writer (ps. by Alberto Pincherle) (1907 - 1990)
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  • Ban Ki-moon When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Britney Spears When I'm under stress, I do yoga. It's when I'm happiest that I have a problem with junk food.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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