Quotes with up-their-own-butt

Quotes 2901 till 2920 of 4570.

  • Alexander Pope Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bill Dedman Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Adam Grant Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.
    Adam Grant
    American author and professor (1981 - )
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  • David Hare Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • Augustus Hare Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • C. S. Lewis Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
    Source: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bill James Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Barbara Bush Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood... but everyone has something to give.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Peter McArthur Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.
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  • Albert Camus Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Magnus Carlsen Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
    Magnus Carlsen
    Norwegian chess grandmaster (1990 - )
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  • Mike Tyson Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
    Mike Tyson
    American boxer and media personality (born 1966) (1966 - )
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  • George D. Prentice Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • Samuel Johnson Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ansel Adams Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Bernard Gilpin Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers.
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  • D'Onofrio Vincent Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. [On his acting techniques]
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  • John Ruskin Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bill Flores Someday, somehow, the leadership of Planned Parenthood will have to answer for their callous disregard of the sanctity of human life. In the meantime, I am relieved that the Bryan abortion facility has gone out of business.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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