Cheap Quotes
889 quotes by 710 authors
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It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.
— J. A. Spender
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A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very…
— Katherine Paterson
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When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which…
— Arthur Koestler
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President Bush and Bill Clinton both agree that cloning is morally wrong. Clinton said that he thinks humans should be made the old-fashioned way -…
— Jay Leno
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Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into 'info haves' and 'info have-nots.' The fact…
— William J. Clinton
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You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.
— Edmund Burke
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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
— Bill Joy
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The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.
— Vannevar Bush
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You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns.
— Stephen Harper
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All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is…
— Pedro Almodovar
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I've got a Ferrari 430. It's black. I don't know what it cost but it wasn't cheap. I bought it because I was being a…
— Jermain Defoe
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In developing countries the situation could be even worse because developing countries do not have to count their emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Private companies…
— Jennifer Morgan
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Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into…
— Harold B. Lee
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There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them…
— Will Rogers
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I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain…
— Will Rogers
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The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and…
— Will Rogers
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