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3257 Across quotes by 2329 unique authors

The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it… — James Lane Allen
We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no… — Chinua Achebe
Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des… — Karl Marx
The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris… — George H. W. Bush
Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery — Poul Anderson
Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the… — Poul Anderson
Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise. — Poul Anderson
What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de… — Poul Anderson
An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a… — Roger Zelazny
The orange sky is rolling across the sky like a severed head, gentle light glimmers in the ravines among the clouds, the banners of the… — Isaac Babel
The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against… — Robert Venturi
Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat… — Mike Tyson
At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times.… — Mike Tyson
Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment — Bob Filner
Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one… — Rabindranath Tagore
Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out… — Indira Gandhi
The Humane Society of the United States works with local Humane Societies across the country. We don't control every local Humane Society in this nation.… — Wayne Pacelle
It (the slider) just rolls off of your index finger and begins it's spin which will take it down and across the plate (hopefully). Just… — Steve Carlton
As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future. — Ban Ki-moon
The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim… — Andrei Tarkovsky
We aren't just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose — Charles R. Swindoll
Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just… — Mignon McLaughlin
I'm a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren't, I wouldn't have this company.... I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable… — Martha Stewart
If there is no passionate love for Christ at the center of everything, we will only jingle and jangle our way across the world, merely… — William Wilberforce
An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state… — Bruce Barton

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