Thomas Hobbes Quotes
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.Thomas Hobbes
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
Rachel Joyce -
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings -
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Owen Feltham -
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon -
I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
Edith Widder
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul -
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
Salman Rushdie -
In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.
Edgar Wright -
I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
Kage Baker -
Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
Barbara Demick
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
Cameron Mackintosh -
We treated all of the dead with dignity.
Harry Anderson -
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
Karl Kraus -
If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.
Randy Newman -
I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
Tamsin Greig
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Hi. It's Nikki. I'm not here right now because I'm dead.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe -
Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
Aristotle -
Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
Erica Jong -
I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.
Sarah Rees Brennan -
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas Hobbes