Curb Quotes
152 quotes by 138 authors
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Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico…
— Greg Walden
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Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes,…
— Herbert Spencer
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If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least…
— Jim Yong Kim
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When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing…
— Preston Sturges
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To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
— Lewis Mumford
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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of…
— Lord Acton
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Common grace curbs the destructive power of sin, maintains in a measure the moral order of the universe, thus making an orderly life possible, distributes…
— Louis Berkhof
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Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'
— Unknown Author
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Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb!…
— Henry Vaughan
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...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither…
— Pope Pius X
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Some non-communist parties and CPPCC members have, at CPPCC meetings or in their proposals, called for the enactment of a law against secession at the…
— Unknown Author
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Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous…
— Karen Armstrong
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All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Being Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm was the best thing to happen to Larry David in life.
— Larry David
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... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb the quickness of…
— Lorenzo Scupoli
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While anyone who practices a religion has the right to their own religious truths, it doesn't give them the right to violate the welfare of…
— Marianne Thieme
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I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
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If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Who Wrote These Curb Quotes
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