Mixtures Quotes - Page 7

• He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

  Charles Lamb

  Perfection, Matter, Pounds

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.48

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• Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Men, Desire, Action

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). "Autobiografía de los valores", Harcourt

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• A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and not by a wish to benefit society, nevertheless, mathematics as a whole does benefit society.

  Timothy Gowers

  Ambition, Math, Curiosity

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• Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.

  Jean Vanier

  Hate, Light, Darkness

  Jean Vanier (2001). “Seeing Beyond Depression”, p.29, Paulist Press

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• Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy.

  Michael Shanks

  Thinking, Democracy, May

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• Odio mi mandíbula. No sé si es de mi padre, creo que me parezco más a mi madre, mi hermana pequeña es exactamente igual que mi padre y mi hermana mediana es una mezcla de los dos.

  Rumer Willis

  Mother, Dad, Hate

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• The same thing can be both good and bad. Whenever you speak of good, bad is also present. The world is a mixture of both. There is not good without bad. They are both sides of the same coin. Both are necessary. We have been given free will and discriminating capacity to select what is beneficial to us and to avoid what is detrimental to us. Even Cobra poison can be used as medicine.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Medicine, Poison, Coins

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• Mixtape" es una palabra muy apropiada para incluir en el título de la película de Goran Hugo Olsson porque incluye una rica mezcla de voces culturales. Hablan a través de diferentes líneas divisorias como las de los que tienen y los que no tienen, la juventud y la madurez, el blanco y el negro, lo nacional y lo global, y el pasado y el presente.

  Aberjhani

  Black And White, Maturity, Past

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• He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.

  Alain de Botton

  Believe, Eye, Intelligent

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• Men!" "At least we don't fake it." "Listen, it was your uncle. And we were late, remember? So I made the sacrifice and got us there in time for dessert. You should be thanking me." Morelli's mouth was open slightly and his face was registering a mixture of astonished disbelief and wounded, pissed-off male pride. Okay, it wasn't that much of a sacrifice at the time, and I knew he shouldn't be thanking me, but give me a break here... this wasn't famine in Ethiopia

  Janet Evanovich

  Uncles, Pride, Sacrifice

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Eleven on Top”, p.192, Macmillan

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• He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it; I have no control of myself or anything that's happened. So now I'm waking up. I'm awake, he thought ... I've been destroyed and now that I'm awake all I can do is realize it ... The shock of getting up there and telling that account made me see. Mixture of lies and bits of truth. Woven together. Unable to see where each starts.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lying, People, Together

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• My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.

  Grace Jones

  Kings, Dad, Father

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• Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still, I wasn't up to facing two sexy men when I had one eye swollen mostly shut and half of my face black and blue.

  Patricia Briggs

  Sexy, Eye, Men

  Patricia Briggs (2007). “Blood Bound”, p.40, Penguin

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• Me gusta pensar que la música es una mezcla de experiencias personales mezcladas con fotografía y películas.

  Sune Rose Wagner

  Photography, Thinking, Music Is

  "The Raveonettes". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. February 5, 2008.

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• If we look at it more from a philosophical standpoint, these foundations of atheism and secular humanism believe that you are your own God. That leads us to something that unfortunately has crept into many churches across America, and it is what I call the Social Gospel. The social gospel, that could creep into something that is called Liberation Theology, which is a mixture of leftist, pseudo-Christianity with Marxism.

  Ted Cruz

  Believe, Philosophical, America

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing. They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality. They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures. -- from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius

  Aberjhani

  Reality, Dancing, Quality

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• Yeah, I know you. I made you up. This is my dream. You're a mixture of Zac Efron and Johnny Depp.

  P. C. Cast

  Dream, Yeah, Made

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• Ciclismo de carretera, especialmente de montaña. Es la embriagadora mezcla de endorfinas y estética que me encanta. Mi mujer también lo practica, y estar con ella en condiciones extremas pero hermosas enriquece la experiencia y nuestra relación.

  Gary Kemp

  Hermosa, Ciclismo, Esposa

  "Spandau Ballet Gary Kemp: Dejar atrás las malas experiencias y tener TOC". Entrevista con Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• One thing I've always wondered—why did you enter that bikini contest when you were a teenager?” Her face flushed with a mixture of anger and embarrassment. “How far back did you trace me?” “Far enough.” A pause. “You didn't answer my question.” “And you didn't turn into a puff of smoke and disappear. The world is full of disappointments.

  Nalini Singh

  Disappointment, Teenager, Puff

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.52, Penguin

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• This group had a kind of dark glamour within the castle. They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dark, Leader, Ambitious

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• Any other iron on you?” he asked impatiently. “Just my tongue stud.” His look was a mixture of curiosity and horror. “I’m kidding, you idiot. Let’s go.

  Kiersten White

  Iron, Curiosity, Looks

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• Los estadounidenses tienen graves problemas intelectuales: corren el riesgo de perder el capital cultural que tanto les ha costado conseguir a causa de una virulenta mezcla de antiintelectualismo, antirracionalismo y bajas expectativas.

  Susan Jacoby

  Truth, Expectations, Intellectual

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• The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Sympathy, Self, People

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• If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?

  Gavin Extence

  Tragedy, Want, Comedy

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• My gaze flew to him once more,noting the cigarette he set down even as he exhaled a long plume of white."Why are you lying there smoking while I'm chained to a wall?"I demanded.The look he gave me was a mixture of relief and cynicism."Since it seems you don't remember anything about the past two days,let me assure you,luv-I earned that smoke.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Wall, Lying, Past

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