Placing Quotes

184 quotes by 172 authors

Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in… — John Hodgman
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad. — Euripides
Every person working in sports journalism today owes a tremendous debt to Howard Cosell. His greatest contribution was elevating sports reporting out of daily play-by-play… — Roone Arledge
Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the… — Thales
There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a… — Ronald Reagan
A dream inspiring a story is different than placing a description of a dream in a story. When you describe a character's dream, it has… — Jeff VanderMeer
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf. — Ben Hogan
Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is… — Bobby Jindal
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as… — Raymond Queneau
I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave. — Manfred von Richthofen
Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try… — Jonathan Sacks
The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged… — Jerry Saltz
Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle… — Steven Spielberg
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. — Amy Tan
You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you… — Judith McNaught
It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to… — John Stuart Mill
Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing… — Harold B. Lee
There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and… — Kate DiCamillo

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