Quotes with up-their-own-butt

Quotes 381 till 400 of 4570.

  • Lao-Tzu All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • François Truffaut All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.
    François Truffaut
    French filmmaker (1932 - 1984)
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  • Aldous Huxley All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bruce Jackson All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Charles H. Parkhurst All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
    Charles H. Parkhurst
    American clergyman and social reformer (1842 - 1933)
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  • Benjamin Franklin All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Brandon Lee All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Lord Chesterfield All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.
    Source: Letters (1892)
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bobby Seale All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.
    Source: Interview with The Guardian (February 1970)
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • William Mathews All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Rebecca West All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Plutarch All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Sir Walter Scott All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Henry Miller All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Graham Swift All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.
    Graham Swift
    English writer (1949 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All necessary truth is its own evidence.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Camille Paglia All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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