Quotes with up-their-own-butt

Quotes 3641 till 3660 of 4570.

  • C. Everett Koop There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Al Goldstein There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Edwin Markham There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own.
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Brooks Atkinson There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each other's throat.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • William Hazlitt There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Booth Tarkington There is a midland city in the heart of fair, open country, a dirty and wonderful city nesting dingily in the fog of its own smoke.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
    The Sabbath (1951) p. 3
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Ben Goldacre There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into buying their pills, but drug firms can afford to use slightly more sophisticated versions.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Havelock Ellis There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Virginia Woolf There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Alan K. Simpson There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
    Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Og Mandino There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • George Santayana There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Elbert Hubbard There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Herbert N. Casson There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.
    Herbert N. Casson
    Canadian journalist and author (1869 - 1951)
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  • Ben Shapiro There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that's basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Charlotte Brontë There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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