Quotes with up-their-own-butt

Quotes 4241 till 4260 of 4570.

  • Rosa Parks When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bruno Tonioli When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • B. B. King When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Billy Bob Thornton When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.
    Billy Bob Thornton
    American actor, writer, and musician (1955 - )
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  • Horace Walpole When people will not weed their mind, they are apt to be overrun with nettles.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Beeban Kidron When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Boxer When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Napoleon When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Brian Austin Green When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Luigi Pirandello When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Edmund Burke When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Anthony Holden When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Abbe Pierre When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Carol Loomis When they are employed wisely, derivatives make the world simpler because they give their buyers an ability to manage and transfer risk.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • C. S. Lewis When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.
    The Screwtape Letters (1942)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Jacob Boehme When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.
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  • Byron Dorgan When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • George O'Neil When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.
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