Quotations
Quotes:
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
View quotes by Luc De Vauvanargues
I am a highly qualified highwayman.
View quotes by Vic Reeves
We're highly sexed people [on him and his girlfriend]
View quotes by Paul Hunter
This Othello has the naturalness and dignity and mind of a highly educated Moor.
View quotes by James Agate
Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.
View quotes by Peter Gabriel
I have no use for bodyguards, but I have a very special use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
View quotes by Elvis Presley
Hail, happy Britain! highly favoured isle,
And Heaven's peculiar care! (The Chase)
View quotes by William Somerville
After matches you want people to go straight in front of the cameras and the media and it's a highly-charged atmosphere so you have to be careful.
View quotes by Clive Woodward
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
View quotes by Dave Barry
Like all pilots who flew and fought in the Hurricane, I grew to love it. It was strong, highly maneuverable, could turn inside the Spitfire and of course the Me 109.
View quotes by Douglas Bader
It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last,' as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
View quotes by Alan Greenspan
You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book. I'm talking, of course, of the DNA in your cells.
View quotes by Richard Dawkins
Bin taxes would damage the local environment and public health by leading to a surge in fly-tipping and backyard burning and the poorest households would be hit the hardest by this highly regressive new tax
View quotes by Eric Pickles
Rape is highly reprehensible, both in a moral sense and in its almost total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy of the female victim and for the latter's privilege of choosing those with whom intimate relations are to be established.
View quotes by Byron R White
Our appearance is a powerful communication tool, sending messages to every sighted person. Everyone is highly influenced by the visual impression of a person they are meeting for the first time
View quotes by Catherine Bell
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.
View quotes by John Dalton
This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
View quotes by Desmond Morris
But the likelihood is that, in 100,000 years time, we shall either have reverted to wild barbarism, or else civilisation will have advanced beyond all recognition - into colonies in outer space, for instance. In either case, evolutionary extrapolations from present conditions are likely to be highly misleading
View quotes by Richard Dawkins
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
View quotes by Charles Darwin
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
View quotes by Aldous Huxley
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