Quotes with up-their-own-butt

Quotes 1661 till 1680 of 4570.

  • Ben Carson In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Alice Munro In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Gilbert Adair In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.''
    Gilbert Adair
    Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. (1944 - 2011)
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  • Carol P. Christ In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • John Ruskin In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Malcolm X In order for a man to really understand himself he must be part of a nation; he must have some land of his own, a God of his own, a language of his own. Most of all he must have love and devotion for his own kind.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Marya Mannes In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
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  • Abdallah II In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
    Abdallah II
    Jordan King (1962 - )
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  • Croesus In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
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  • Bert Lance In politics, they don't want anything that deters whatever their goal is. When people get in the way of that, that's when people get hurt - and sometimes destroyed.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • John Selden In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Bob Ney In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Alice Walker In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Adam Mickiewicz In spring's own country, where the gardens blow,
    You faded, tender rose! For hours now past,
    Like butterflies departing, on you're cast
    The worms of memories to work you woe.
    Crimean Sonnets The Grave of the Countess Potocki
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  • Brooks Atkinson In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Joan Didion In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.
    The White Album (1979) 89
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Aldous Huxley In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barney Frank In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.
    Frank in an op-ed piece A (sub)prime argument for more regulation in W:Financial Times (August 2007)
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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