Quotes with well-brought-up

Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1499.

  • Oscar Wilde The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ian McEwan The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • David Ogilvy The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Joseph Wood Krutch The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
    Joseph Wood Krutch
    American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Blaise Pascal The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bayard Taylor The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Adam Schiff The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • David Brinkley The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
    David Brinkley
    American newsreader (1920 - 2003)
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  • James Russell Lowell The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Ayn Rand The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Niels Bohr The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Billy Ray Cyrus The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
    Billy Ray Cyrus
    American singer-songwriter and actor (1961 - )
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  • Robert Herrick The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • Lord George Byron The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Francis Bacon The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Cate Blanchett The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bryan Cogman The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Bill Cunningham The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive at all. I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.
    Bill Cunningham
    American fashion photographer
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