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667 Quotes for 'Miscellaneous' in the Database.

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Think, or be damned.
Author: Bryan Penton
Source: None
Genius is patience.
Author: Buffon
Source: None
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Author: Clive James
Source: None
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
Author: Colette
Source: None
It's only words...unless they're true.
Author: David Mamet
Source: None
I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.
Author: Erin Cleary
Source: None
I am the emperor, and I want dumplings.
Author: Ferdinand I
Source: None
He who survives will see the outcome.
Author: French Proverb
Source: None
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
Author: Heisenberg
Source: None
Where would we be without salt?
Author: James A. Beard
Source: None
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. - The Oracle.
Author: Baltasar Gracian
Source: None
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. - Agricola.
Author: Tacitus
Source: None
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Author: Xenophon
Source: None
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. - Broken Vessels, 1991.
Author: André Dubus
Source: None
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder. - Notes on Doctrinal and Spiritual Subjects.
Author: Frederick W. Faber
Source: None
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
Author: Ruth Benedict
Source: None
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Author: William Jennings Bryan
Source: None
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Author: Johann Von Schiller
Source: None
The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. - Memorial service for Justice Brandeis, December 21, 1942.
Author: Learned Hand
Source: None
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. - Mr. Citizen, 1960.
Author: Harry S Truman
Source: None
But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in. - Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence.
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Source: None
There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
Author: Roger Caras
Source: None
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. - "In the Nature of the Physical World", 1928.
Author: Sir Arthur Eddington
Source: None
We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.
Author: English Proverb
Source: None
Albert Einstein I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. W. Alton Jones -Robert Frost.
Author: Robert Frost
Source: None
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
Author: Stew Leonard
Source: None
Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.
Author: Stephen Bayley
Source: None
People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'.
Author: Paul Hersey
Source: None
If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
Author: Leigh Hunt
Source: None
There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.
Author: Johnson
Source: None
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Author: William J. Durant
Source: None
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
Author: Queen's Mother Elizabeth
Source: None
Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment.
Author: Rene Dubos
Source: None
Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
Author: Rex Harrison
Source: None
Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
Author: Charles Buck
Source: None
He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.
Author: Charles James Fox
Source: None
C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C.
Author: Rodney Dangerfield
Source: None
Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
Author: Augusto Pinochet
Source: None
The paper burns, but the words fly away.
Author: Ben Joseph Akiba
Source: None
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
Author: Clarence Darrow
Source: None
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
Author: George S. Patton
Source: None
Winged words.
Author: Homer
Source: None
Thank God, I have done my duty.
Author: Horatio, Viscount Nelson
Source: None
They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. - The Italians, 1964.
Author: Luigi Barzini
Source: None
It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. - "A Word to the Wizards".
Author: Marya Mannes
Source: None
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Author: Elizabeth Kubler-ross
Source: None
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Author: Henrik Tikkanen
Source: None
Telling lies does not work in advertising.
Author: Tim Bell
Source: None
'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?.
Author: Mark Edwards
Source: None
Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.
Author: Harold Wallace Ross
Source: None

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