Like Ours Quotes
65 quotes by 61 authors
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In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are…
— Stephen Hawking
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In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.
— Anatole Broyard
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President Bush said it's now time for a change in Iraq and he wants them to have a Western-style democracy like ours. So right now…
— Jay Leno
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The mobile market is exploding and it makes perfect sense for a media company like ours to create a real content destination for the billions…
— Peter Chernin
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Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the…
— Robert Falcon Scott
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This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands and…
— John Podesta
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In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.
— Gore Vidal
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And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is…
— Mark Strand
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But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is…
— Janet Suzman
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Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are…
— John Muir
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The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions…
— Steven Pinker
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You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in…
— George Saunders
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Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and…
— Nick Hornby
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Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like…
— Thomas Hardy
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In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black,…
— Frederick Douglass
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A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance…
— John Grogan
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I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in…
— Edna Ferber
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Even as I speak, the very last polar bear may be dying of hunger on account of climate change, on account of us. And I…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas?…
— Orhan Pamuk
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