Quotes with up-their-own-butt

Quotes 2801 till 2820 of 4570.

  • Benazir Bhutto Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Allan Bloom Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • John Dryden Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field...
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Alan Cohen Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Emile Durkheim Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Evelyn Waugh Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Caspar Weinberger Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • William Cowper Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Jonathan Swift Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Billy Corgan Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Deborah Tannen Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
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  • Ban Ki-moon Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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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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  • Boris Sidis Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.
    Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Samuel Butler Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Mark Twain Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ben Stein Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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