Irving Babbitt Quotes

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

Irving Babbitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 2, 1865 - July 15, 1933

Topics

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First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.

Jim DeMint

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People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.

John Malkovich

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Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!'

Robert Orben

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Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

Luigi Pirandello

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A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.

Loretta Young

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One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.

Joseph Jacobs

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Over the years, I've been involved in many business crises. I qualify this, since my crises have never involved life and death or the survival of the human race. But they are still crises.

Brad Feld

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I won't put a product out that I don't 100 percent believe in. All of my products are made from the best ingredients and are made to make a woman feel like herself, only prettier and more confident.

Bobbi Brown

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Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

Wim Wenders

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Poverty is rooted in injustice.

Winnie Byanyima

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There's no one of us that's perfect; there's no one of us that can't do just a little better.

Shawn Michaels

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You cannot defeat Islamic State with airstrikes only. It's necessary to cooperate with ground troops, and the Syrian army is the most efficient and powerful ground force to fight the Islamic State.

Sergei Lavrov

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